Billions of Development Dollars in Private Hands
BRUSSELS, Jun 1, 2012 (IPS) – While governments and international institutions are focusing on a stronger role for the private sector in development aid, a new report by the European ...
India’s Economic Growth Leaves Human Development in the Dust
GENEVA, May 23, 2012 (IPS) – Ahead of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of India, a coalition of NGOs denounced the gap between the countrys growth rate and the rate ...
Will Europe Meet its 2015 Aid Development Goals?
BRUSSELS, Mar. 19, 2012 (IPS) – Decades ago, 15 of Europes wealthiest nations made a promise to allocate .7 percent of their respective gross national products (GNP) to official development ...
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Informal Economy Ensures Equitable Development
PORT MORESBY, Jan 24, 2012 (IPS) – Although Papua New Guinea is known as a resource-rich country, 85 percent of the population depends on the informal economy for a living. ...
DEVELOPMENT: Little Tobin, Less Robin
BRUSSELS, Jan 18, 2012 (IPS) – Europes apparent failure to forge broad agreement on introducing a financial transactions tax marks the latest setback for organisations counting on a similar worldwide ...
DEVELOPMENT: France Steps Forward With Robin Hood Tax
PARIS, Jan 14, 2012 (IPS) – The decision by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to push ahead with a financial transactions tax (FTT) may be a political ploy ahead of elections, ...
DEVELOPMENT: Showcasing Solidarity
MLAGA, Spain, Nov 10, 2011 (IPS) – How does a freezer bought with a microloan change the life of a poor woman in Senegal? What are the Study Solidarity Olympics? ...
Grassroots Women Urge Rights-Based Development Path
WASHINGTON, Sep 23, 2011 (IPS) – The streets around the headquarters of the world’s leading financial institutions the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have been transformed into a ...
World Bank, IMF Face Shifting Development Paradigm
WASHINGTON, Sep 17, 2011 (IPS) – Amid a global financial crisis that has shown tiny signs of reversing, next week’s fall meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank ...
DEVELOPMENT: ‘Boomerang Aid Enriches Donors’
BRUSSELS, Sep 6, 2011 (IPS) – Development aid is ineffective mostly because it is tied to contracts worth billions of dollars awarded to firms in developed countries in a phenomenon ...
