By Colin Todhunter
Global Research, January 03, 2016
A few months ago, entrepreneur Charles Devenish contacted me to tell me about his plans to develop various mining enterprises across India. He spoke about the massive amounts of untapped mineral resources lying beneath India that is just lying there and has been for a long time. What he thought I might find appealing were his plans for how small-scale mining could dovetail with a model of agriculture aimed at restoring Indian soils, which have been seriously degraded by decades of ‘green revolution’ chemical poisoning, and a rolling back of the increasing and harmful corporate control of farming.
World trade growth has not returned to its pre-crisis rate; it fell to just 2% in 2012, and Unctad points out that imports to developed regions, including the US and Europe, are still below 2007 levels. It suggests this downward trend "highlights the vulnerabilities developing countries continue to face at a time of lacklustre growth in developed countries".
Global Financial Integrity (GFI), the Centre for Applied Research at the Norwegian School of Economics and a team of global experts have released a new study... Commenting on the study, GFI President Raymond Baker noted that “this report is the most comprehensive analysis of global financial flows impacting developing countries compiled to date” and is the culmination of three years of research collaboration. Mr. Baker presented the paper’s findings to an expert group in Bergen, Norway on November 21.
l’Allemagne consacre aujourd’hui plus de 25% de son aide à l’accueil des réfugiés. D’autres pays européens ont fortement réorienté leur aide, à l’image de la Grèce et de l’Italie, en première ligne sur les routes migratoires de la Méditerranée.
Ces deux pays consacrent respectivement 22,3% et 34,3% de leur aide aux réfugiés. C’est cependant l’Autriche qui remporte la palme d’or de l’utilisation de l’aide pour faire face à la crise migratoire, avec plus de 37% de son budget dévolu aux réfugiés.
With 230,000 libraries in developing countries, these institutions can be the difference between users simply accessing information or being able to use it Stuart Hamilton Guardian Professional, Tuesday 12 March 2013
Projektia toteutetaan mm. Greenwell Matongon yhteisökirjastossa Windhoekissa, Namibiassa ja Dar es Salaamin pääkirjastossa Tansaniassa. Tansanian kirjastopalveluiden johtaja Alli A. S. Mcharazo vieraili IFLA-konferenssissa Gothenburgissa 2010. Haastattelu on englanninkielinen Projektikoordinaattori Marjatta Lahti
23.12.2014
Teija Laakso
YK pyytää ennennäkemättömän suurta apubudjettia ensi vuodelle. Humanitaaristen kriisien monimutkaistuminen ja pitkittyminen on havaittu myös suomalaisjärjestöissä.
The Transparency, Accountability, and Participation (TAP) Network is a broad international coalition of civil society organizations (CSOs) working together to advance SDG16+ to promote peace, justice, and inclusive societies, and to help enhance accountability for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Access to information as part of development strategy is becoming more important, but is information alone enough? Join the debate, Thursday 14 March at 1pm GMT Anna Scott Guardian Professional, Tuesday 12 March
Building the capacity for renewable energy involves the extraction of resources such as cobalt, lithium and nickel from the global south. The green revolution will be dirtier than we think
Asad Rehman, Independent Saturday 4 May 2019
Scratch the surface of the current plans to decarbonise the economy and replace it with renewable energies and beneath it lays the same logic that has made the UK the 6th richest country in the world. Britain is planning to go green through a new phase of resource and wealth extraction of countries in the global south. At the heart of our economic system fuelled by the City of
Collection Creator Biography:
Franklin book programs
Franklin Publications was officially incorporated in the state of New York on June 5, 1952 as a nonprofit membership corporation for publication and translation of American books to native languages for distribution abroad. A group of American publishers, librarians and educators who were concerned with the state of education in developing countries founded the organization and named it after America's first book publisher, Benjamin Franklin. This group hoped that by facilitating and encouraging the publication and reading of American books in translation, international ties would be strengthened. Franklin's official purpose as stated in its certificate of incorporation was to.....
"The 1960s were a tumultuous time for Franklin. It continued to grow, expanding its programs to Africa and South America, but soon found itself in serious financial jeopardy. It began to redirect its activities from direct operational projects toward educational development. Specifically, it began to focus more on developing libraries and literacy campaigns, producing encyclopedias and dictionaries, developing textbooks, conducting training seminars in book publishing and writers' workshops, and technical assistance in printing, publishing and book selling. This redefinition also extended to a name change. Franklin Publications became Franklin Book Programs in 1964. The board felt the name Franklin Publications sounded too commercial and gave the impression it was a competitor to publishers. The organization's original name also failed to show its emphasis on books and that it was an international program."
28.1.2012 Haiti Disaster victims 'need books as well as food' Supported by dozens of celebrated authors, Libraries Without Borders calls for action to supply 'nourishment for the mind'