Douglas Alexander MP, Secretary of State for International Development, writes exclusively for Labour Outlook on the government's achievements successes in the developing world

On the day the annual G8 summit begins, International development policy specialist, Chichi Umunna, looks at the challenges ahead and, more importantly, what the summit will achieve.

Conservatives do not do International Development...

Yesterday's announcement from the Prime Minister on the launch of an aid delivery watch group/dream-team (Bill Gates, Kofi Annan and Bob Geldof) wasn't a huge surprise. Ardent Blairites (myself) see this as quite a necessary evocation of the Labour Party (and by extension - our government's) championing of the holy trifecta of aid, trade and debt. It's what we do, and it's what the Tories don't. Simple.