This is an archived news story, written on: July 8, 2009

The UK White Paper on international development called Building our Common Future was published on 6 July, on the eve of the G8 summit in Italy. It sets out government plans to address world poverty over the next five years.

It contains a 12-point plan on sustainable growth, climate change, health, education and public services. Focusing in particular on conflict areas, the UK renews its commitment to increasing its development budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income by 2013.