Review of DFID white paper - Eliminating World Poverty: Building our Common Future

 SustainableSecurity.org promotes the need to divert resources away from military spending towards development in order to tackle the root causes of global insecurity. 

Dan Smith, the Secretary General of International Alert, has produced a review of the DFID white paper Eliminating World Poverty: Building our Common Future, which was published in July. 

The DFID paper is a step in the right direction in developing a sustainable long-term approach to development. 

As Dan suggests, "DFID has moved to put unprecedented emphasis on conflict and on politics as key determinants of the prospects of success in development and development assistance...The attempt to treat development as essentially non-political, and thus to treat development assistance as essentially technical, is one of the abiding weaknesses of the international development industry. DFID is putting that right and we should applaud it."

Dan's excellent review can be read here.