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Financing for Development Conference, Doha

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Documents are just coming out from the UN International Conference on Financing for Development, Doha 29 Nov to 2 Dec 2008. Will it really be the 'historic new beginning' touted by the French Development Minister or more of a 'missed opportunity' (the civil society reaction). See http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/doha/ For a summary of ...

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More on the impact of the global financial crisis

Monday, December 8th, 2008

To follow on from my last blog on how the ongoing financial/economic crisis is affecting people and countries in the developing world, that most wonderful of knowledge services Eldis (at the Institute of Development Studies) has flagged a number of interesting reports recently. In particular, their own Voices from the ...

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