Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Development" produced 298 items.
| 1. Almunia plans to modernise EU state-aid rules | February 2, 2012 |
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State-aid rules should become more ‘efficient' under plan. Joaquín Almunia, the European commissioner for competition, will today announce proposals to modernise the... |
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| 2. Gates calls for increase in EU research spending | January 26, 2012 |
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Microsoft chairman says doubling EU research budget would have 'huge impact' on the world's poor. The European Union should devote more funding to research and innovation... |
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| 3. Greening the European Investment Bank | January 9, 2012 |
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The EIB now promotes clean energy more – but fossil fuels still dominate its energy portfolio. Over the past four years, the European Investment Bank – the European... |
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| 4. Food-aid scheme extended for two years | December 15, 2011 |
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Farm ministers agree to continue a food-aid programme for deprived people in 2012 and 2013. The agreement, reached at a meeting of farm ministers today, will provide... |
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| 5. Let private sector be a catalyst for sustainable development | December 1, 2011 |
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Moving from aid effectiveness to development effectiveness. You have carried a number of letters in recent weeks on making aid more effective, linked to the Fourth High-Level... |
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| 6. A controversial change of focus | December 1, 2011 |
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Many donors are making the switch from disease-specific funding to general health funding, a move that some campaigners fear will cost lives. The discovery of AIDS and HIV... |
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| 7. Clean water makes better aid | November 24, 2011 |
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The EU must do more to help the world's poorest people. Europe should be proud of its record on aid and development, as the writers of one of last week's letters noted (“EU... | |
| 8. State aid remains in crisis mode | November 24, 2011 |
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EU state-aid rules have changed rapidly over the past few years, and more change is on the way. In 2008, at the height of the financial crisis that was threatening banks... |
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| 9. EU must not miss chance to make aid more effective | November 17, 2011 |
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The EU is failing to show political leadership at a crucial time. Over recent months, you have on several occasions focused on how the EU is trying to – and could – make... |
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| 10. Backing for food aid programme | November 14, 2011 |
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Member states drop opposition to EU scheme. National governments have agreed to approve plans to provide food aid for poor people in the EU in 2012 and 2013. | |
| 11. A flawed development policy | October 27, 2011 |
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Growth is necessary but not sufficient to reduce poverty and inequality. The EU's new growth-led development policy has many positive points (“Commission aims to attach... |
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| 12. Eurodad Director, Brussels | October 25, 2011 |
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| 13. Commission aims to attach more conditions to development aid | October 13, 2011 |
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Funding to governments set to decrease. The European Commission wants to concentrate development aid on fewer recipient countries and to attach more conditions to the aid... |
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| 14. Global FDI rebounding after three-year decline | July 28, 2011 |
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UN says foreign direct investment rose in 2010. Global flows of foreign direct investment have begun rebounding from three years of decline with a rise of 5% in 2010,... | |
| 15. Aid effectiveness | June 23, 2011 |
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Providing aid directly to governments prove more effective than aid for specific projects. Your article “On the trail of ‘disappearing' aid” (16-22 June) fails to... |
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| 16. On the trail of ‘disappearing' aid | June 16, 2011 |
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Austerity measures force fresh look at aid projects. More than half of the European Commission's development aid to the world's poorest countries goes directly to their... | |
| 17. The IMF and democratic responsibility | June 9, 2011 |
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Those who argue that Europe should surrender its leadership of the International Monetary Fund are ignoring its democratic mission. In his recent book “The future of... |
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| 18. ‘Weaknesses' in EU aid managed by UN | May 26, 2011 |
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ECA finds flaws in the design of projects funded by the EU through the UN. The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has found major shortcomings in the way that close to a... | |
| 19. While the dust is settling | May 26, 2011 |
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EU looking at changes to its aid policies as the world's poorest states are increasingly unable to cope. Last week (20 May), the European Union pledged €54.5 million to... |
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| 20. Opportunity knocks | May 6, 2011 |
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World leaders have a real chance to improve conditions in the world's poorest countries. At a meeting in Istanbul next week (9 May), world leaders will have the chance to... |
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