Global IssuesNews headlines for “Foreign Aid for Development Assistance”, page 8
DEVELOPMENT: Showcasing Solidarity
- Inter Press Service
How does a freezer purchased with a microloan change the life of a poor woman in Senegal? What are the Study Solidarity Olympics? How many lives can an ambulance equipped to attend births save in Ethiopia?
Brazil Takes the Fight Against Hunger Abroad
- Inter Press Service
The Brazilian government is extending its fight against hunger to the world stage, by inaugurating a Centre of Excellence Against Hunger to transmit its positive experiences to other developing countries with the help of United Nations agencies.
Global Crisis Makes U.N. Reform Imperative
- Inter Press Service
Reinventing the United Nations is crucial to protect the poorest inhabitants of the planet, at a time when the global economic crisis, the effects of climate change, and food insecurity are undermining development efforts.
G20: Final Push for Financial Transactions Tax
- Inter Press Service
While the Greek bailout and stimulus package dominated discussion amoung the Group of 20 (G20) major industrialised and emerging market economies at the high-level summit in Cannes, France, this week, the proposed financial transactions tax (FTT) received meagre attention.
Antigua Partners with EU for Emergency Docking Port
- Inter Press Service
The scars on the pilings adjacent to the new Emergency Ferry Docking Facility here are still visible, graphic evidence of the devastation caused by Hurricane Luis when it hit Antigua and Barbuda in 1995.
OP-ED: Better Aid Means Better Development
- Inter Press Service
Oxfam and major aid donors of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (the DAC) are often on opposite sides of the fence. Today though, we are on the same side —making sure that effective aid lifts people out of poverty.
EUROPE: ‘Agenda for Change’ Leaves Middle-Income Countries Out in the Cold
- Inter Press Service
Last week the European Commission unveiled its ‘Agenda for Change’, a new policy framework outlining priorities for the European Union’s development aid and detailing the Commission’s renewed focus on economic growth as a means of poverty reduction, particularly in the world’s poorest countries.
Q&A: 'Soil is Key to Global Warming, Food Security'
- Inter Press Service
Luc Gnacadja, in his second three-year term as executive secretary, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), is widely seen as delivering on his commitment to manage the world's drylands.
BRAZIL-AFRICA: Teaching Diplomacy
- Inter Press Service
African countries are increasingly taking up Brazil's offer of training in the art of diplomacy, seeing it as a partner that could help them set up or improve their own foreign service institutes.
'Identities Do Not Have Borders'
- Inter Press Service
Sep. 11, 2001 deeply affected the relations between the United States and Europe on one hand and North Africa and the Middle East on the other.
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