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Bill Gates has set ambitious goals for Africa. Benny Dembitzer asks whether another top-down aid programme can succeed without understanding how poverty is experienced on the ground.

Médecins Sans Frontières commands enormous public trust and significant resources. This article asks difficult questions about how effectively that strength is being used.

Development policy often treats countries as coherent nations. In reality, borders, identities and local loyalties can make governance and outside intervention far more complicated.

The people most affected by poverty are often missing from the data used to describe it. If the numbers are incomplete, how reliable are the policies built upon them?

Corruption in poorer countries is frequently condemned without examining who enables it. Benny distinguishes need from greed and asks where power and responsibility truly sit.

Reparations raise profound questions about history, wealth and responsibility. This article considers what meaningful repair could look like beyond symbolism and political rhetoric.

A major report may acknowledge global poverty while relying on familiar assumptions. Benny asks whether respected institutions are diagnosing the system or simply repeating it.

Vast sums have been committed to ending poverty, but outcomes remain painfully limited. Following the money reveals who controls it, where it is absorbed and who is overlooked.