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Is aid working? Is this the right question to be asking?,
Oda :: Ghana | about 16 hours ago
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In response, aid agencies feed the public a diet of overwhelmingly “good news stories” to convince them that it is working. This diverts attention from the central question: how to reduce the major gap between what aid currently does and what it could...
Tags: gives aid, aid agency, aid funding, provides aid, development aid, aid systemic, ODA, systemic problem, ones aid, Paris Declaration, Ghana, International development, OECD, Aid effectiveness, Development Assistance Committee, Development, Aid, International relations
Analysis: Humanitarian action under siege
Dakar :: Senegal | 1 day ago
Credibility On the first-ever World Humanitarian Day on 19 August, when the UN spotlights fallen aid workers and growing humanitarian needs, experts say a trend toward integrating aid goals into broader social and security agendas has contributed to an erosion of...
Tags: humanitarian space, IRIN, Sudan, Senegal, Dakar, Aid, United Nations, Humanitarian Accountability Partnership International, Humanitarian Futures Programme, Humanitarian aid, Humanitarian principles, Politics, War Conflict
New approach to aid needed in Africa
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | 1 day ago
Credibility Twenty-five years after the world was gripped by harrowing scenes of starvation and death in Ethiopia, chronic hunger has returned to the Horn of Africa. Last month the Ethiopian government called for urgent international assistance to help feed 6,2-million...
Tags: Ethiopian, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Red Cross, Development, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Famine, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Humanitarian aid, Aid, International organizations, Disaster Accident, Least Developed Countries, Poverty, Hunger, African Union member states, African countries, Horn of Africa, Somalia, world food price crisis, Malnutrition, World Food Programme, Social Issues, Environment
Bid for cluster approach
Lami :: Fiji Islands | 1 day ago
Credibility United Nations Office of Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs), during a four-day Disaster Management Exercise held at the Novotel Convention Centre in Lami yesterday. In this approach, each cluster comprises agencies whose mandates complement the mission...
Tags: Disaster Management Exercise, Fiji Islands, Lami, Aid, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Sanitation, Emergency management, Disaster Accident, Environment, Disasters, Humanitarian aid, Weather, Landslide
Kerry, Lugar amuse Chitralis
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 1 day ago
Credibility Some others who read papers and listen to TV talk shows try to debate the issue. Those opposing the bill say it is an infringement on the sovereignty of the country, while those supporting the bill say we are already devoid of sovereignty because of the...
Tags: Pakistan, Islamabad, Sovereignty, International relations, Aid, Development, Politics, Entertainment Culture
Aid to Pacific 'misses its mark'
Sydney :: Australia | 1 day ago
Credibility The report, by the Senate's foreign affairs, defence and trade references committee, made 22 recommendations to help Australia to better tailor its aid program. Recommendations included a new strategic plan to ensure assistance is better targeted and...
Tags: Pacific, Russell Trood, Australia, Sydney, Aid, International relations, Economic development, Business Finance, Development, International development
Japan slides into deflation
Tōkyō :: Japan | 1 day ago
Credibility Today’s report suggests that the Japanese government is preparing itself for the horrors of a “double-dip” recession – a calamity which most economists currently believe can be avoided, but only if China and Asia retain their recovery momentum. The government’s...
Tags: Bank of Japan, Democratic Party of Japan, National › Japan, central bank, Japan, Tōkyō, Inflation, Deflation, Deflator, Business Finance, Bernanke Doctrine, Politics, Monetary policy, Macroeconomics, Masaaki Shirakawa, Yukio Hatoyama, Shirakawa, Economy of Japan, Recessions, Quantitative easing, Nikkei 225, Mizuho Securities, Topix, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Technology Internet, Japanese yen, Development aid, Development, Official Development Assistance, Aid, Japanese general election, New Komeito Party, Liberal Democratic Party, Elections in Japan, Liberal parties, Soka Gakkai
Mission appeals for help
Ba :: Fiji Islands | 2 days ago
Credibility Namosau Mission School in Ba has accumulated a debt of about $25,000 and is now appealing for help. The debt was the result of loans to pay lease and town rates, water rates and maintain school quarters. School manager Reverend Sarwesh Kumar Singh said...
Tags: Fiji Islands, Ba, Development, Aid, Debt, Education
Douglas Alexander: Ignore the fashionable criticism. Your Government's aid is effective
London :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
Credibility Every year British taxpayers are helping save the lives of millions of people in the developing world. They are doing so because their money is being carefully and rigorously targeted at improving health care in some of the most disadvantaged nations...
Tags: United Kingdom, London, Poverty, International development, Aid, Development, International relations
Broken promises on aid | David Cronin
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 2 days ago
Credibility Broken promises on aid Bono called Blair and Brown the 'Lennon and McCartney' of international development. But they have let their fans down Google the word "begrudgery" and you're told it is a " peculiar disease of the Irish which seemingly renders...
Tags: Britain, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, progress report, Denmark, Copenhagen, G8, International development, Make Poverty History, Bob Geldof, Development aid, Development, Aid, International relations
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