Social Development
- Thu May 08 2008
Trade unions demand action on world food crisis
In response to the deepening global food crisis the ITUC has called on governments and world institutions to take far-reaching measures to guarantee food security for all.
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Globalization
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ADB Strategy 2020: Selling Asia to the private sector
The 41st Annual Governors Meeting of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) took place in Madrid, Spain from May 3 to 6, 2008. One of the main agenda of this meeting is the ADB’s strategy for the next years for what it describes as a "New Asia". NGOs and former ADB officials have condemned the strategy. (pdf)
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Economy and Financial Affairs
- Fri May 02 2008
2008 Asian Development Bank Annual Meeting
This update provides the most recent information regarding the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Asian Development Bank held in Madrid, Spain from May 3-6. It also includes the activities of civil society organizations taking place during the meeting.
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Economy and Financial Affairs
- Wed Apr 30 2008
IMF reforms itself, a little
The poor have been given a little more say in the IMF. For many developing countries and NGOs this is still not enough, but it is the biggest single change in the last 60 years.
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Gender
- Wed Apr 30 2008
Campaign and Information Center
The UNelections.org campaign is encouraging the United Nations to increase transparency regarding how the posts are filled, place a greater emphasis on individual qualifications, reduce corruptive political and financial trading for positions, and help ensure more equity for candidates from all member states.
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Globalization
- Sat Apr 12 2008
World Bank "playing both sides of climate crisis"
A new study released by Institute for Policy Studies casts further doubts on the World Bank's ability to stay neutral in the global politics of climate change. "It is making money off of causing the climate crisis and then turning around and claiming to solve it," said Janet Redman.
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Globalization
- Thu Apr 10 2008
The World Bank's carbon deals
It was the first day in a long week of the consultations at the World Bank’s Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C. The topic that drew so much attention: Climate change and the Bank’s plans for plunging its fingers deeper into the expanding multi-billion-dollar carbon-trading pie.
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Sustainable Development
- Thu Apr 03 2008
World bank climate profiteering
The World Bank has seized upon the immense challenges climate change poses to humanity and is now front and center in the complicated, international world of carbon finance. It can turn the dirtiest carbon credits into gold.
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Social Development
- Fri Mar 28 2008
Call of La Via Campesina for April 17th
The 17th of April is the International Peasant's Struggle Day, established after the massacre of 19 landless peasants belonging to the Landless Movement (MST) in Brazil on the 17th of April 1996 during the second conference of La Via Campesina in Tlaxcala Mexico.
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Economy and Financial Affairs
- Wed Mar 19 2008
Workers will pay the costs of global crisis
International union leaders warned representatives of governments and employers, and World Bank President Robert Zoellick, that the burden of the current financial turmoil will fall on the world’s workers.
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