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Rick Rowden

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Rick Rowden is the author of The Deadly Ideas of Neoliberalism: How the IMF has undermined public health and the fight against AIDS (Zed Books, 2009). He is currently doing a PhD in economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi

August 2011

  • Nigeria

    Poverty matters blog
    Is DfID offering effective support for industrialisation in developing nations?

    Rick Rowden: The UK's development arm seems to neglect vital distinctions between the needs of domestic and foreign private sectors

April 2011

  • Food price riots in Maputo, Mozambique, last year

    Poverty matters blog
    It's time for a new development model

    Rick Rowden: Short-term poverty reduction has become a stand-in for actual long-term development. This has to change to enable poor countries to get off the aid bandwagon

January 2011

  • Aymara indigenous people in Bolivia

    Poverty matters blog
    Poverty reduction is not development

    Rick Rowden: If poor countries are unable to adopt the policies they need to transform their industries and diversify their economies, how will they ever get off the foreign aid bandwagon?

November 2010

  • MDG : Aid conditioning : World Bank and IMF

    Poverty matters blog
    We've yet to kill off the Washington consensus

    Rick Rowden: The Washington consensus is alive and well and will continue to be so unless we lobby our governments to stop pushing the failed policies of the World Bank and the IMF

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