A big debate has flourished this week about water prices. Some elected officials, water experts and businessmen are calling for an increase in the price for water.
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A debate over raising the price of water
Posted by UpdatedFrequently on April 28th, 2010
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Comments OffOECD says that international aid is “off-track”
Posted by UpdatedFrequently on April 27th, 2010
From IRIN, the OECD weighs in on international aid and the gap between aid pledges and commitments.
Members of the Organisation for Economic Coooperation and Development’s (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) gave US$121.5 billion in bilateral aid in 2009, reaching a historic high, but the gap between commitments and promises made in 2005 is widening, says the UK’s Overseas Development Institute (ODI).
In 2005 DAC donors collectively promised to commit 0.56 percent of gross national income to aid by 2010, but reached just 0.31 percent in 2009, according to OECD’s 2010 aid report issued on 23 April.
“Though aid commitments have continued to increase, the rate of increase has dropped off in the past few years…making donors increasingly off-track,” ODI research fellow Alison Evans told IRIN.
DAC donors gave $27 billion to Africa in 2009, an increase of 3 percent on 2008, but this is still less than half of the extra aid they promised at Gleneagles in 2005, said Evans.
Norway, France, the UK, Korea, Finland, Belgium and Switzerland all increased their aid commitments, while Japan, Greece, Ireland, Spain and Portugal, among others, reduced theirs.
“For EU [European Union] members these DAC figures are particularly sobering,” Evans told IRIN.
Posted in World News Tags: Aid Pledges, Alison Evans, Bilateral Aid, Commitments, Dac, Development Assistance Committee, Donors, European Union, European Union Members, France Germany, Gap, Gleneagles, Good Times, Gross National Income, Netherlands Norway, Odi, Oecd, Recession, Research Fellow, Target, World News Comments OffG-8 falling short of promises, again
Posted by UpdatedFrequently on April 14th, 2010
A think tank that monitors international aid contributions says that the G-8 is falling way short of meeting their pledges. In the 2005 Gleneagles summit, the G-8 promised an extra 25 billion pounds in aid to poor countries, so far they have contributed less than half of that.
Posted in World News Tags: Budget Cuts, Buisnees, Developing Countries, Development Assistance, Financial Help, G8 Countries, Gleneagles, Global Recession, Inflation, Irish Aid, Lawson, Millennium Development Goals, Oecd, Oxfam, Pledges, Poor Countries, Poverty Relief, Rich Countries, Second World War, Thinktank, World News Comments OffWorld – Tax evasion threat to development
Posted by UpdatedFrequently on November 28th, 2008
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The global economic slowdown will hit the poorest nations hardest. Demand for their exports is falling.
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