Global development

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Aid effectiveness, vulture funds and multinationals | Liz Ford
News roundup: The fourth high-level aid effectiveness meeting, the legal loophole being exploited by vulture funds, and the escalating rate of 'lifestyle' diseases in developing countries

Liz Ford

29, Nov, 2011 @3:33 PM

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UK pledges £35m for family planning for poor countries

Funding will enable a rapid-response-style unit to procure and deliver contraceptives to countries facing stock-outs while governments work on better long-term arrangements

Sarah Boseley, in Dakar, Senegal

29, Nov, 2011 @3:25 PM

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Africa is on the move, says Blair
Mark Tran: Tony Blair impresses aid campaigners at the aid effectiveness forum in Busan with his level of optimism about the future of African countries

Mark Tran, in Busan

29, Nov, 2011 @12:28 PM

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Zonas rurales del Perú se conectan
Más de 100 comunidades de las zonas rurales del Perú tienen ahora energía renovable y acceso a internet, gracias a un programa de ayuda que se implementa en las ocho naciones más pobres de América Latina

Mattia Cabitza

29, Nov, 2011 @11:43 AM

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China pulls out of aid partnership

China says it is not ready to endorse a partnership for global development, snubbing other countries' attempts to forge a common front on aid

Mark Tran in Busan

29, Nov, 2011 @5:19 AM

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Rural Peru gets connected | Mattia Cabitza
Mattia Cabitza: More than 100 communities in rural Peru now have renewable energy and internet access, thanks to an aid programme that is being rolled out across the eight poorest nations in Latin America

Mattia Cabitza

28, Nov, 2011 @5:02 PM

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Caravan of Hope takes climate change message to Durban – in pictures

Activists from 10 African countries travelled overland from Burundi to the UN climate change conference in Durban, South Africa

28, Nov, 2011 @4:46 PM

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Rwanda demands end to tied aid

The draft outcome document for the Busan aid effectiveness forum is still under negotiation as African countries push for a 2013 deadline to end tied aid

Mark Tran, in Busan

28, Nov, 2011 @2:32 PM

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COP17: the issues at stake for developing countries - podcast

This week, delegates from nearly 200 countries arrive in Durban, South Africa, for COP17, the latest round of global climate talks. We discuss what a failure at Durban might mean for development prospects

John Vidal, Celeste Hicks and Claire Provost

28, Nov, 2011 @12:48 PM

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South Korea: a model of development? | Mark Tran

Mark Tran: South Korea, the host of this week's fourth high-level forum on aid effectiveness, believes other countries could learn from its development experience

Mark Tran, in Busan

28, Nov, 2011 @12:27 PM

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Global inequality: tackling the elite 1% problem | Jonathan Glennie
Jonathan Glennie: The challenge for the Occupy demonstrators and anyone interested in inequality is that global inequality is even more complex than national inequality

Jonathan Glennie

28, Nov, 2011 @7:00 AM

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Solving Uganda's budget puzzle | Claire Provost

Claire Provost: Ahead of the Busan aid effectiveness meeting there are moves to make the tracking of aid money and government spending much simpler

Claire Provost

25, Nov, 2011 @4:05 PM

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