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
THE “largest gathering ever of world leaders”; a “step-change” in aid; a “massive step forward for humanity”: the UN meeting to be held on September 25th...
By Paula Martinez Gutierrez, September 24, 2014The New Development Bank seems to offer a more equal voting power: Each BRICS nation has contributed $10 billion to the lending fund and consequently each nation will have an equal say on the allocation of the money and the approval of loans. This effort to maintain an equal-share voting basis of the member countries is an appealing alternative from the Bretton Woods institutions’ policies, and has been applauded by many. although the currency has not been officially announced yet, many believe that the New Development Bank’s loans will be given in Renminb
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'
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.
JAK Vi måste ta tillbaka makten över våra pengar – och därigenom våra liv!!! Det har tagit så lång tid för oss människor att förstå och genomskåda vad exponentiell tillväxt faktiskt är…men tack och lov börjar insikten sprida sig snabbt nu
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."
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).
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.
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.
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.
record $991bn flowed illicitly out of developing economies in 2012—facilitating crime, corruption, and tax evasion—finds a new GFI study.
As this report demonstrates, illicit financial flows are the most damaging
economic problem plaguing the world's developing and emerging
economies, said GFI President Raymond Baker, a longtime authority on
financial crime. These outflows already greater than the combined sum
of all FDI and ODA flowing into these countries are sapping roughly a
trillion dollars per year from the world's poor and middle-income
economies.
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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".