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News headlines for “WTO Doha “Development” Trade Round Collapse, 2006”, page 18
Q&A: The World Needs a Marshall Plan for Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
When world leaders meet for a mega talk-fest on climate change at the United Nations in late September, the focus will be more on politics and less on finance.
FINANCE: Africa Wants Greater Voice at IMF
- Inter Press Service
Civil society in Kenya has urged the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for greater representation within its decision making boards and the formation of a dispute resolution body.
G8: Some Aid Can be Hard to Stomach
- Inter Press Service
As numbers go, and as expectations went, 20 billion dollars would be a fair bit for the G8 to produce to fight the food crisis and bring down hunger. Certainly, it was more than most expected.
POLITICS: World Bank, IMF Heads Skip Summit on Global Crisis
- Inter Press Service
When a major international conference on financing for development took place in the Qatari capital of Doha last November, the heads of both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) skipped the meeting.
HAITI: Donors Pledge 125 Million Dollars to Rebuild After Storms
- Inter Press Service
International donors have pledged 324 million dollars over the next two years in additional aid to help Haiti recover from food riots and damage to roads and other key infrastructure caused by four hurricanes that ravaged Latin America's poorest nation last summer.
AFRICA: G20 Summit’s Trade-Related Commitments Disappoint
- Inter Press Service
The Group of 20’s pledges of trade finance and aid for trade are too vague, according to the editors of the e-book ‘‘Rebuilding Global Trade’’, published last week. And the London summit of this group of developed and developing economies last week failed to make a strong commitment to the multilateral trade regime.
POLITICS-THAILAND: In 'Thaksin Country' Ousted PM Has Loyalists
- Inter Press Service
For most of her adult life, Yard Sunee had to endure a reality that was worlds away from the conveniences that people in a modern metropolis like Bangkok take for granted -- like ready access to tap water.
FINANCE: Crisis Pits Vatican Against Offshore Bankers
- Inter Press Service
The financial crisis has the U.S. swirling with charges about the immoral greed of some corporate executives who recklessly bet their companies' futures to line their own pockets. The popular fix for this international calamity stops at the nation's borders: decouple top-line salaries and bonuses from stock prices and institute more transparency and regulation.
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