'A group of UK NGOs is calling on governments to increase Aid for small-scale African farmers in ways that will help them to feed their people, improve their livelihoods and sustain the environment.
Aid to improve local food production and consumption does not, however, appear to be the priority, despite the urgency of the food crisis.'
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'UNCTAD continues to respond to the emerging needs of the Palestinian economy by intensifying assistance, in coordination with other United Nations and international organizations and in close consultation with Palestine. However, funding shortfalls threaten efforts to build on previous achievements and reach the hoped-for results. Improved extrabudgetary funding remains critical to achieving UNCTAD’s mandate of responding to the evolving needs of the Palestinian economy.'
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In June 2007, Action for Global Health produced their first policy report, Health Warning which highlighted the significant gaps in donor aid that need to be overcome if the health Millennium Development Goals are to be met. This new report, Healthy Aid, takes this analysis one step further to look not only at how much aid European donors are allocating to health concerns in developing countries, but also looks at how this money is being spent and makes recommendations on how donors can improve more...
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Concrete steps towards a millennium free from hunger: WFP is working together with its partners in the UN, non-governmental organizations, academic institutes and governments for a millennium free from hunger. This brochure lists the WFP 2007 achievements towards meeting the UN Millennium Development Goals.
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Detailed national or regional integrated development plans to meet most of the Millennium Goals can be drafted at the cost of a few eurocents per person.
The Model for self-financing ecological, sustainable, local integrated development projects promoted by Stichting Bakens Verzet in the Netherlands makes the drafting of fully detailed national or regional integrated development plans to meet nearly all of the Millennium Goals quick, easy, and cheap. How quickly the plans are prepared depends more...
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"Evaluation is central to good corporate governance. To ensure that it invests responsibly, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) continually reviews its operations to assess their effectiveness, to learn from past experience and to improve the development of future projects. Evaluation at the ADB has two major dimensions: (i) self-evaluation by the units responsible for particular programs and activities; and (ii) independent evaluation by the Operations Evaluation Department (OED). This review focu more...
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MOST people, particularly those living outside China, assume that the country’s phenomenal growth and increasing global heft are based on a steady, if not always smooth, transition to capitalism. Thirty years of reforms have freed the economy and it can be only a matter of time until the politics follows. This gradualist view is wrong, according to an important new book by Yasheng Huang, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Original research on China is rare, largely because s more...
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