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  • Deputy Prime Minister talks development with Bill Gates

    Following a meeting with philanthropist Bill Gates today, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg confirmed that he will be representing the UK at the Millennium Development Goals Summit at the United Nations in September.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • UK’s Afghan aid effort to increase by 40%

    The UK’s aid effort in Afghanistan will be expanded by 40%, International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell announced today.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Alan Duncan visits Bangladesh

    Minister of State for International Development, Alan Duncan MP in Bangladesh on fact-finding visit

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Postcard from the field: Ethiopia

    25 years on from Live Aid, DFID's Jo Raisin looks at the progress the country has made and the challenges that remain

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • How much energy are we using?

    DFID has started publishing real-time information on energy and water use in its London headquarters building.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • World Population Day

    The Secretary of State statement on World Population Day

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Praise for UK efforts to reduce poverty

    OECD's Development Assistance Committee issues a report on UK’s development assistance

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Postcard from the field: South Africa

    In his last instalment Peter Kerby takes a look at what the World Cup will mean for South Africa beyond the final whistle

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Your freedom

    The government has launched the Your Freedom website to allow as many people in the UK as possible to put forward their ideas on what laws and regulations should be done away with.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Cost-saving measures to boost help for world's poor

    International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell announced further cash-saving measures as part of an ongoing drive to get value for money out of the Government’s aid budget.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Postcard from the field: South Africa

    England may have been knocked out, but Peter Kerby finds success elsewhere in South Africa

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Andrew Mitchell speech to UN Economic and Social Council

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Andrew Mitchell delivers first overseas speech in Washington

    Secretary of State Andrew Mitchell's first overseas speech given at Carnegie Endowment, Washington DC

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Andrew Mitchell delivers first overseas speech in Washington

    Secretary of State Andrew Mitchell's first overseas speech given at Carnegie Endowment, Washington DC, Friday 25 June.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • DFID Overseas Territories Department's relocation to East Kilbride

    DFID is relocating its Overseas Territories Department (OTD) to its other Headquarter site in East Kilbride, Scotland.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • International assessment sets out action to meet MDGs

    Helen Clark, head of UNDP launches international assessment of action needed to meet MDGs.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Postcard from the field: South Africa

    One week into the World Cup, our man in Pretoria struggles to keep a stiff upper lip. Read his update

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • CDC publishes annual development review report for 2009

    CDC, the UK government owned development finance institution has published its annual Development Review report for 2009 detailing its investment impact in poorer countries.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Aid budget to be refocused to deliver better results

    The UK will focus its aid on fewer countries in a move designed to increase the impact of funding on the world’s poorest people

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Delivering as One: UK speech from Minister of State

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government