Rising food prices over the last year have put the lives of 400,000 children at risk, in advance of the G20 summit in Cannes our director of policy has warned.
Work towards next year’s G20 in France has already begun. So what can we look forward to in the year ahead?
Here’s our videoblog from the end of the G20 Summit in Seoul. In it we talk about what we achieved here, what still needs to be done, and how Adrian managed to get a conversation that started with his being asked “do you know where the plates are?” to end with him being asked to go on primetime TV.
Adrian Lovett and I are at the G20 Summit in Seoul – reminding leaders that the economic crisis is a crisis for the poorest children most of all, and urging a global recovery package rooted in investing in children’s potential. Here’s our latest video blog from the summit. Hope you enjoy.
Growth is good. NGOs work alongside the poorest people in the world. We’re not romantic about poverty. We want to end it. And we know, from experience, that growth is a powerful tool for reducing poverty in developing countries. But on its own growth is not good enough.
As the leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies gather in Seoul next week, G20 leaders would do well to recognise that they have a responsibility far greater than producing an economic roadmap. They have the power to bring about transformative and equitable change.
Will the G20 deliver for the world’s poor?
With over 8 million children dying each year from preventable causes, a global financial transaction tax could be the solution
As the leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies gather in Seoul, the international financial institutions are pointing to signs of a fragile global economic recovery. Yet the aftershocks of the biggest global downturn in decades are still being felt by millions of the world’s poorest people.
We have just had another G8 Summit. As other blogs here have discussed, there are clearly problems with the G8. Campaigners, lobbyists and developing country governments put huge amounts of time and attention into deceasing returns.
During the last eight weeks, while I’ve been in Niger, I’ve often been overwhelmed by the scale of the problems people face here. It’s not just the current food crisis and the number of people who are going hungry now but also the future and what this has in store.
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