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DEVELOPMENT: Investment, Not Charity for LDCs
- Inter Press Service
Least Developed Countries do not need charity; they want more and smarter investments. This is the point of departure for the Fourth U.N. Conference for the world’s poor countries (LDC-IV) begins in Istanbul, Turkey.
DEVELOPMENT: Time For New Approaches says Civil Society
- Inter Press Service
The dominant approaches to development have failed the world’s poorest citizens and now the paradigm must change. This is the strong message coming from over 2,000 non-governmental organisations gathered at the civil society forum for the Fourth U.N. Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC-IV) in Istanbul, Turkey.
AFRICA: Investment Growth Benefiting Only Some Poor States
- Inter Press Service
While foreign direct investment in least developed countries (LDCs) in Africa has risen sharply over the past decade, most of it went to resource-rich economies and had little impact on employment creation.
Q&A: Translating Southern Successes Into LDC Solutions
- Inter Press Service
'In South-South cooperation we are all partners,' Josephine Ojiambo, ambassador of Kenya to the U.N. and president of the U.N. General Assembly High-Level Committee on South-South Cooperation, told IPS. 'SSC specifically shies away from the donor-client relationship.'
Financiers Lock Horns over Macro Policies While Millions Go Hungry
- Inter Press Service
As weeks of what the International Monetary Fund's managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn called 'painful' negotiations over a host of macroeconomic policies drew to a close here Saturday, confusion over coherent strategies for sustainable economic recovery hangs thick in the air.
WORLD: Finding Funding for LDCs Amidst Global Financial Crisis
- Inter Press Service
Representatives of the world’s poorest nations are preparing to assemble a new 'programme of action' to reduce grinding poverty. Among proposals that could emerge from the U.N. Least Developed Countries Conference in Istanbul next month is a global tax on financial transactions that would generate billions of dollars a year for development assistance.
A Table for Nine Billion
- Inter Press Service
As the World Bank and International Monetary Fund convene for their annual Spring Meetings here, soaring food prices are high on the agenda, prompting some analysts to fast-forward to 2050 and the question of how to nourish the mid-century's estimated world population of 8.9 billion people — the majority of whom will live in developing countries.
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.
U.N. Decries Stagnant Funding For Population Goals
- Inter Press Service
As the international community readies to cope with a rising world population of some seven billion people by the middle of this year, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns that financial assistance for population-related activities has made no visible gains since 2008.
New World Development Report Repackages Old Ideas
- Inter Press Service
With over 1.5 billion people living in countries blighted by incessant or recurring violence, the World Bank's annual World Development Report (WDR), with this year's focus on how conflict derails development, was anxiously received Monday by scores of development agencies, governments and NGOs all over the world.
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