Despite malnutrition causing a third of child deaths, new research published this week highlights that nutrition programmes are chronically underfunded - with only 0.37% of total aid spent on basic interventions that are deemed to have huge benefits for children and for economic growth.

When children don't receive...

Growing up in the frugality of 1980s Northern Ireland, my mother regularly told me to eat all of my dinner because there were children starving in Africa. As a five-year-old, I was puzzled by why we couldn't just send food to them, given I didn't want it and they were...

The landscape of international development and aid is changing. While the traditional powerhouses of the global economy face fiscal crises, aid from emerging economies is increasing and many aid recipients themselves are experiencing dramatic economic growth.

Meanwhile, new figures from the Organisation of Economic Cooperation...