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The Doha Non-governmental organization Group on Financing for Development (DNG) is an international coalition of civil society organizations serving as the NGO facilitating body to the official UN Financing for Development (FfD) process and engaged in the monitoring of the various agenda items of the Monterrey Consensus.
INSouth embodies an understanding, from a South perspective, of the new and emerging issues in the international arena, and the challenges and opportunities they pose for the South.
NGO sites
African Economic Research Consortium (AERC)
AERC is devoted to policy research and training. Its principal objective is to strengthen local capacity for conducting independent, rigorous inquiry into problems pertinent to the management of economies in sub-Saharan Africa.
African Forum and Network on Debt and Development - AFRODAD
Organisation working on solutions to Africa’s mounting debt problem and its negative impact on development.
African Monitor - AM
The AM monitors the delivery of promises by donor and African governments, as well as programme effectiveness at grassroots level in order to advocate for accelerated delivery and programme effectiveness based on evidence from the ground.
Anti-Privatization Forum (APF)
The APF’s role is to unite struggles against privatisation in the workplace and community. It is open to any organisation or individual opposed to privatisation. South Africa.
Aspects of India's Economy
A journal which aims to explain day-to-day issues of Indian economic life. It is published by the Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.). India.
BanglaPraxis
BanglaPraxis is an activist organization in Bangladesh, working on IFIs, ecology (rivers), water privatization and mining.
Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF)
Independent not-for-profit non-governmental research institute for capacity building in economic and social policy analysis. The main objective of ESRF is to build and strengthen human and institutional capabilities in economic and social policy analysis and decision-making and to enhance the understanding of policy options within the Government, public sector, donor community and in the growing national non-governmental sector mainly, but not only in Tanzania.
Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI)
EPRI supports the development of economic policy options that promote economic growth and social equity in South Africa. The institute is committed to analysing South Africa's socio-economic situation and constructing sustainable economic polices that foster job creation and redistribution while supporting sustained economic growth and macroeconomic stability. South Africa.
Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey - ERF
ERF’s mission is to provide an institutional mechanism to initiate and fund policy-relevant economic research, to disseminate the results of research activity to scholars, policymakers, and the business community, and to function as a resource base for researchers through its databank and documentation library.
Focus on the Global South
Focus aims to consciously and consistently articulate, link and develop greater coherence between local community-based and national, regional and global paradigms of change. Thailand.
IBON Foundation
The main concern of IBON is the collation of socio-economic data and analysis and the dissemination of this information to the different sectors of Philippine society.
IFIs Latin American MonitoR
This initiative aims at contributing to the Latin American and global IFI campaigns for reform of the Bretton Woods institutions by translating key information, producing and disseminating analysis and providing a point of access to research results, opinions and campaigning activities, thus promoting dialogue and collaboration between key actors.
India Resource Center
India Resource Center works to support anti-corporate globalization movements in India. They provide information on transnational corporations to Indian movements. They also educate and mobilize key constituencies in the US and other countries to take action in support of campaigns in India.
Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD)
The Institute for Global Dialogue is an independent South African non-governmental organisation that provides analysis on the changing global environment and its impact on South Africa for the benefit of government and civil society.
International Development Economic Associates (IDEAs)
International network of progressive economists engaged in the teaching, research and utilization of development economics.
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Vain and void, neither G8 nor G20!
Thu Jul 01 2010 - Source: ALAI
As at previous meetings, the Toronto summit of the exclusive G20 club to which the world’s richest countries invited the heads of state of the major emerging countries once again raised great expectations only to conclude with an empty bubble. As in previous meetings since 2008 discussions focused on a way out of the crisis that favours creditors and great powers.
Smaller nations fear marginalisation by elite G20
Mon Jun 21 2010 - Source: IPS
The 27-member Global Governance Group (3G) is challenging the politically and economically powerful G20 not to marginalise the interests of small and medium-sized countries or undermine the United Nations in key decision-making.
Development aid: Robbing the poor to feed the rich
Thu Jun 10 2010 - Source: Pambazuka
In producing often 'negative resource transfers' (from developing to developed countries), development aid and official development assistance (ODA) essentially remain an exercise in taking money from poor countries for the purpose of enriching wealthier ones, writes Charles Abugre.

 
World Bank -
A new briefing by Eurodad concludes that many of the World Bank’s conditions impede on Ghana’s sovereign right to decide independently on appropriate measures to recover from the global crisis and to boost long term sustainable development. If the Bank is committed to improving developing countries’ ownership over their development pathways, its practices need to be aligned to its promises allowing developing countries their legitimate right to decide on their future.
Fuente: Eurodad

UN Conference on the world financial and economic crisis and its impact on development The global financial crisis: implications for the South Gender in economics The Bank of the South: An alternative to the IFIs?
Financing for Development Initiative for Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America - IIRSA External debt The G8 Summit 2005
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