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Essential reading 1)      ONE’s Policy Pitch (contact me)   2)      UK Aid Network HLF-IV update (October) available here   3)      3rd Draft of the Busan Outcome Document available here   4)      ONE’s comments on the 3rd draft of the Busan … Continue reading →

Due to popular demand, I’m putting my Ph.D. on-line. It was about the relationship between globalization and sovereignty, using tax havens/offshore – a pivotal space in the process of globalization – as the lens to understand that relationship. I completed … Continue reading →

Given the increased interested in tax havens and tax justice, I’ve decided to put the publications that came out of my Ph.D. on tax havens on-line. I wish now, as I wished then, that I’d taken more of a “what … Continue reading →

I am currently working for ONE as their Policy Director for Transparency & Accountability. Click here for more information about me, my skills and experience. Drop me a line at alanhudson1@gmail.com or follow me on twitter @alanhudson1 NB: This blog and my tweets reflect my … Continue reading →

What role should donors play in helping to improve governance and domestic accountability in developing countries? My starting point in addressing this issue is that accountability in developing countries – as elsewhere – is very important for reasons of effectiveness/learning and fairness/justice and … Continue reading →

I’ve now been working in DFID’s Policy Division for nearly six months. It has been what one calls an interesting experience … Being in Policy Division has stimulated my thinking in recent weeks about a couple of things. First, about what donors … Continue reading →

Decisions about what to do career-wise are seldom easy.  My time with DFID Ethiopia comes to an end at the end of May. It’s been great.  I did have a job to go back to at ODI, but I’ve decided … Continue reading →

I’m now in Addis, having flown out with Ethiopian Airlines last night. As well as ploughing on with Paul Theroux’s Dark Star Safari – he is a miserable bugger, but I was glad to see that he warms to Addis and Ethiopia – … Continue reading →

Today is my last day of working for ODI; at least until next June. It’s been … an experience. On the upside, I’ve been involved in some very interesting pieces of work on accountability and governance, and on policy coherence. … Continue reading →

Bloomin’ heck – user-friendly as the software may be, this business of setting up a weblog could steal as much time as messing around with FTP did in the mid-90s! Note to self: Don’t get sucked in.