Global IssuesNews headlines for “Foreign Aid for Development Assistance”, page 13
/CORRECTED REPEAT*/DEVELOPMENT: IBSA Fund Packs Small But Sustainable Punches
- Inter Press Service
Despite only three million dollars a year coming into the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Fund for Poverty and Hunger Alleviation, it aims to pack punches above its weight with small but sustainable projects.
BRAZIL: From Development Aid Recipient to Donor
- Inter Press Service
Although Brazil's international development funds are still small compared to those of the industrialised world, the South American giant's foreign aid has grown considerably in the last eight years, and the country has gone from beneficiary of development assistance to donor.
DEVELOPMENT: IBSA Fund Packs Small But Sustainable Punches
- Inter Press Service
Despite only three million dollars a year coming into the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Fund for Poverty and Hunger Alleviation, it aims to pack punches above its weight with small but sustainable projects.
DEVELOPMENT: IBSA’s South-South Funding With No Strings Attached
- Inter Press Service
Development donors typically impose strict conditions on recipient countries. Now a different South-South approach to funding is taking shape through the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Fund for Poverty and Hunger Alleviation.
CARIBBEAN: Colonies Seek to Redefine Relationship with EU
- Inter Press Service
The newly elected chair of the Overseas Countries and Territories Association (OCTA), Montserrat's Chief Minister Reuben Meade, wants 'trade rather than aid' to form the basis of the future relationship between Europe and its colonies around the world.
INDIA: Engaging Africa With Software and Soft Power
- Inter Press Service
India cannot match rival China’s massive investments in Africa, but it is using its information technology capabilities and its affordable university courses to stay relevant on the continent.
BRAZIL-US: Obama Promises 'Equal Partnership'
- Inter Press Service
The United States says its relations with Latin America must be 'an equal partnership' - a new vision or, at least, a new discourse that will have a chance to take more concrete shape during U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Brazil this weekend.
IBSA Together in Resisting No-fly Zone
- Inter Press Service
India has found backing at this week’s India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) ministers meeting for its stance that a no-fly zone over Libya must follow multilateral consultations.
BALKANS: Rising Anti-EU Sentiment
- Inter Press Service
Anti-European Union (EU) sentiment is growing across the Balkan countries that have proclaimed membership in the European family of nations as their highest political goal during the past decade. It is caused by prolonged economic hardships that still bite hard, failure of authorities to fight widespread corruption and political deadlock in creating stable governments.
Wild Seismic Predictions Disputed
- Inter Press Service
Without in-depth scientific documentation of marine mammal strandings, natural history and animal behaviour, the prediction of seismic events based on behaviour of marine mammals is not widely accepted. Sceptics often dismiss such predictions as conjecture.
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