Gordon Brown

To mark Britain's decision to make 2005 'Africa's year' - coinciding with London's simultaneous chairing of the Group of Eight (G-8) and presidency of the European Union - Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown set out on 12 January on a six-day African odyssey taking in Kenya Tanzania Mozambique and South Africa...

British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown argues that on present trends it will take Africa 150 years to meet the goals...

His appointment to British Prime Minister Tony Blair's new Commission on Africa (AC Vol 45 No 4) means he will be working closely with his friend and colleague UK Chancellor Gordon Brown...

Another puzzle is how the Commission would relate to British Chancellor Gordon Brown's push at a London conference on 16 February for a sharp increase in development aid from rich countries...

Britain has been vigorously promoting Chancellor Gordon Brown's proposal for an International Financing Initiative to pay for development now by mobilising $50 bn...

In June the G8 leaders are to meet in Evian France to discuss British Chancellor Gordon Brown's plan for an international financing facility that would double aid budgets to US$100 billion a year...

Proponents of trade reform such as Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown argue that as well as pursuing economic justice trade reform would bring more developing states into the world economy thus strengthening overall economic growth...

for HIPC but World Bank officials (and Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown) were exhorting countries to pay up at the annual meeting in Washington because the programme could not finance the big debt write-offs just offered to Congo-Kinshasa (AC Vol 43 No 13)...

On a recent US visit London's Finance Minister Gordon Brown failed to persuade the White House to boost aid...

Short now seen as immovable from DFID (much in the manner of her Tory predecessor Baroness Lynda Chalker) is an ally of Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown (regarded by many as Prime Minister in waiting) but has impressed Blair with her civil service management skills...