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G8: Leaders Produce More Than NGOs Expected
IPS | Development 09 07 2008 TOYAKO, Japan, Jul 8 (IPS) - Three key documents – on African development, food security, and corruption -- emerging Tuesday from the summit of major industrial nations' leaders seem to have taken non-governmental organisations (NGOs) by surprise in delivering more than expected, even if they did not please all.
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ENVIRONMENT: Global Fish Catches Vastly Underestimated
IPS | Development 09 07 2008 FORT LAUDERDALE, U.S., Jul 8 (IPS) - Fisheries catches in tropical island nations may be as much as 17 times higher than officially reported, according to a new study released Tuesday.
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G8: Majority Favours An Exclusive Club
IPS | Development 08 07 2008 TOYAKO, Japan, Jul 8 (IPS) - The Group of Eight (G8) will remain an exclusive club of major industrial nations at least for a year. Whether the next year's summit in Italy will decide on its expansion -- to include Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa -- is an open question.
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DEVELOPMENT: Tourism's New Wave
IPS | Development 08 07 2008 SAN DIEGO, California, Jul 8 (IPS) - David Aabo is en route from Peru to New York City after having spent much of the last few years in the South American country investigating opportunities for development that might help local entrepreneurs build a sustainable regional economy.
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Chronic Poverty is a global emergency that we cannot afford to ignore
DFID | Research for Development | News 08 07 2008 The Chronic Poverty Report 200809: New solutions to escape poverty traps reminds us that alleviating chronic poverty is not merely a question of economics. It is a moral imperative according to UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown
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ROMANIA: Last Intact Forest Under Threat
IPS | Development 08 07 2008 BUCHAREST, Jul 8 (IPS) - Romanian environmentalists have launched a campaign to speed up creation of a national agency for protected areas (ANAP), which the government has been postponing since 2005. In the absence of a proper administrative body, valuable natural sites around the country, including the last remaining intact forest landscape in temperate Europe, are being damaged in the quest for development.
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NORWAY: Pakistani Remittances Drawn Towards Development
IPS | Development 08 07 2008 OSLO, Jul 8 (IPS) - Norway wants to integrate diasporas into development work -- and tap into the huge sums of cash that they send back home -- with a new pilot project that seeks to beef up development efforts in Pakistan.
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RIGHTS-CAMBODIA: 'Killing Fields' Trials Set to Roll
IPS | Development 08 07 2008 PHNOM PENH, Jul 8 (IPS) - After a complicated and sometimes fraught process of establishment lasting over two years, the international tribunal into the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge may commence trials as early as September.
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India food grain waste revealed
DG | Poverty 08 07 2008
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Renewing commitment to the MDGs: A five point plan for action for the G8 in 2008
DG | Poverty 08 07 2008
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Development results, not just promises: Sweating the details in Japan's G8.
DG | Poverty 08 07 2008
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PGIS PPGIS Custom Search Engine
DG | Poverty 08 07 2008
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SOUTH ASIA: Eight Nations Unite to Combat Climate Change
IPS | Development 08 07 2008 DHAKA, Jul 8 (IPS) - As rising seas, melting glaciers, floods and cyclones are increasingly putting millions of people at risk in South Asia, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) met here last week to find ways to mitigate the impacts of changing climate.
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NGO/DPI Executive Committee
DG | Civil Society 08 07 2008
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Department of Public Information: Non-Governmental Organization
DG | Civil Society 08 07 2008
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61st Annual DPI/NGO Conference
DG | Civil Society 08 07 2008
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Renewing commitment to the MDGs: A five point plan for action for the G8 in 2008
DG | Civil Society 08 07 2008
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Development results, not just promises: Sweating the details in Japan's G8.
DG | Civil Society 08 07 2008
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PGIS PPGIS Custom Search Engine
DG | Civil Society 08 07 2008
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Delivering as One pilot countries seminar
UN Pulse | Connecting to UN Information 08 07 2008 The "Delivering as One" pilot countries met in Mozambique for a seminar to review lessons learned during the first year of the initiative. The report of the seminar has been transmitted as a document (A/63/85 - E/2008/83). The report includes a summary of the exchange of views and recommendations ...
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G8: Japanese Commitment to Africa Challenged
IPS | Development 08 07 2008 TOYAKO, Japan, Jul 7 (IPS) - Japan received kudos Monday from the leaders of seven African states as they met with their counterparts from the group of eight (G8) major industrialised nations in Toyako on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. But others raised doubts over the extent of commitment to Africa by Japan and the other G8 countries.
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CARIBBEAN: Guyana Holds Out on Trade Deal with Europe
IPS | Development 08 07 2008 ST JOHN'S, Antigua, Jul 7 (IPS) - Caribbean leaders appear to be no closer to a consensus position on the controversial Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) that was initialed last December following negotiations between the European Union and the Caribbean Forum countries.
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DEVELOPMENT: Vision Exists, Reality Doesn't
IPS | Development 07 07 2008 UNITED NATIONS, Jul 7 (IPS) - The implementation of internationally agreed development goals (IADGs) -- including the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 -- is being increasingly hampered by lack of coordination and coherence both among rich and poor nations, and also within the United Nations.
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AGRICULTURE-TANZANIA: Higher Crop Prices Bring Farmers No Joy
IPS | Development 07 07 2008 ARUSHA, Jul 7 (IPS) - The six-foot tall corn stalks on Kastul Baha's homestead are the envy of his pastoral village in northern Tanzania. Baha was one of the fortunate farmers this crop season with $35 to buy a package of fertilizer to apply over his half-hectare field. He expects to more than double output to 10 bags of corn compared to four bags last year.
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TRADE: French Report Condemns EPAs as Anti-Development
IPS | Development 07 07 2008 BRUSSELS, Jul 7 (IPS) - The approach taken by the European Union (EU) in trade talks with Africa has been strongly criticised in an official report commissioned by France, the new holder of the EU’s rotating presidency.
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