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		<title>How the old clothes you give to charity shops or dump in donation bins end up in putrefying heaps on the shoreline of West Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (23rd March, 2026)]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A glorious tale of greed</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Spectator (26th August, 2023) Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo In the early months of 1981, investors in a Swiss [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Good riddance to the self-serving Department for International Narcissists</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2020 11:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (June 17th, 2020) One of Tony Blair&#8217;s first actions in government after winning the 1997 election was to weaken British diplomacy by spinning [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Don&#8217;t tinker with the foreign aid target &#8211; just bin it</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Sun (12th February, 2019) THE Tories are in a pickle – and not just on Brexit. They tried to cloak themselves in compassion by chucking [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The charity guru who duped the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2018 18:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (24 October, 2018) It is hard to think of a more famous global academic than Jeffrey Sachs. He advises the United Nations, collaborates with presidents, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Proof that foreign aid does not work</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2018 22:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th October, 2018) As I drove through villages in northern Ghana, bumping along pitted dirt roads and passing mud-splattered men pushing bicycles, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Africa&#8217;s leaders look to move beyond control and charity of aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2018 21:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (7th December, 2017) Few people are in better position to observe the pace of political change across Africa than the Sudanese-born billionaire Mo Ibrahim. Flying [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2014 14:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Observer (4th May, 2014) The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor (Perseus) Last year I flew to Kenya to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Aid groups have blinded Britain to the realities of Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published in The Independent (January 9th, 2013) Recep Erdogan, the astute prime minister of Turkey, is on a tour of Africa. His entourage includes 300 business leaders from [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Forget aid and target inequality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published in Prospect (November 9th, 2012) Should Britain give aid to India? For a hefty majority of people in this country, the answer is clear: it is absurd [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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