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12/28/2006 Maailmanpankki voi tehostaa köyhyyden vähentämistä, arvioi pankin sisällä toimiva itsenäinen evaluointiryhmä. Vakaan talouskasvun tukeminen, realistiset tavoitteet ja maaseudun köyhyys vaativat huomiota. Ainoastaan 40 prosenttia Maailmanpankin luottoja saaneista valtioista on viimeksi kuluneen viiden vuoden aikana pystynyt lisäämään vuosi vuodelta henkeä kohti laskettua kansantuloaan.
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From: Ulkoministeriö
Related: [Development] [Poverty] [Credit and Investment]
©US Government, Ivy Mike - the first thermonuclear test, 1950
12/28/2006 In October 2006, eight years after India and Pakistan crossed the nuclear threshold, the world witnessed yet another breakout, when North Korea exploded an atomic bomb and demanded that it be recognised as a nuclear weapons-state. Talks aimed at persuading Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons, in return for security guarantees and economic assistance, collapsed last week.
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Related: [Development] [International Cooperation] [Nuclear Issues] [MDGs]
Image: ©US Government, Ivy Mike - the first thermonuclear test, 1950
12/28/2006 Jabala’s Safe Migration Project gets panchayats in West Bengal to keep track of women who migrate into urban areas, providing a safety net for women who get trapped into sex work or slave labour.
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Related: [Development] [Poverty] [Human Rights] [MDGs]
12/25/2006 Kredit Mikro dipercaya merupakan salah satu alat pengentasan kemiskinan yang efektif. Helen Todd dari Moris Rasik berusaha mengembangkan kegiatan kredit mikro sebagai suatu cara untuk mengentaskan kemiskinan di Timor Leste.
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Related: [Indonesia] [Microcredit]
Bangladeshi woman and child.
12/21/2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 21 (OneWorld) - The richest 2 percent of adults in the world own more than half the world's wealth, according to a new study released by the Helsinki-based World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University.
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From: OneWorld US
Related: [Poverty] [Credit and Investment] [Microcredit] [Trade]
Image: Bangladeshi woman and child. © Shahidul Alam/Drik / New Internationalist
Liikenneruuhka Intiassa
12/21/2006 Aasian talouskasvu lisää moottoriliikennettä, mikä puolestaan nostaa kasvihuonepäästöjen määrää ja heikentää ilmanlaatua, todetaan Aasian kehityspankin tutkimuksissa. Tähän päivään asti polkupyörä on ollut Aasiassa huomattavasti yleisempi näky kuin auto. Talouskasvun myötä tilanne on nopeasti muuttumassa.
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From: Kehitysyhteistyön palvelukeskus
Related: [Asia and the Pacific] [Development] [Environment] [Climate Change]
Image: Liikenneruuhka Intiassa © Centre for Science and Environment
12/21/2006 Government Defence Spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella yesterday challenged the remark by UN Special Rapporteur on Child Soldiers Alan Rock that he would come up with evidence in two months to prove the Security Forces were conniving in child abductions, saying that the LTTE's self admission in the abduction of 24 OL students clearly showed who the perpetrators were.
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12/20/2006 The new modernised and enlarged Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) was signed today at the South East European summit of Prime Ministers in Bucharest. Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Kosovo (SRSG) Joachim Rucker, together with Kosovo Minister for Trade and Industry Bujar Dugolli and Deputy Head of UNMIK Pillar IV Andreas Wittkowsky, participated in the signing ceremony on behalf of Kosovo.
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Related: [Kosovo] [International Cooperation] [Geopolitics]
Trade
12/20/2006 Anti dumping is not just a protectionist instrument but also an important tool to safeguard domestic industries from cheap imports especially in the wake of reduced tariffs and quota elimination, said Prof. B. S. Chimni, eminent legal expert and former Vice Chancellor of National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata.
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Related: [Development] [Trade] [MDGs]
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San-kansaa Keski-Kalaharissa
12/20/2006 Ihmisoikeusjärjestö Survival International on tyytyväinen Botswanan hallituksen tiistaisesta ilmoituksesta olla valittamatta korkeimman oikeuden tekemästä san-kansaa eli bushmaneja koskevasta päätöksestä. Hallitus lupasi myös pyrkiä toteuttamaan oikeuden päätöksen sen hengen mukaisesti.
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From: OneWorld US
Related: [Botswana] [Human Rights] [Indigenous Rights] [Law]
Image: San-kansaa Keski-Kalaharissa © Survival International
Prof Stiglitz
12/20/2006 Endorsing Prof Stiglitz’s view that neither the developed economies nor the developing world can afford to ignore or reject globalisation, Dr. Manmohan Singh said: "We have to learn to deal with (globalisation), cope with and manage it.
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Related: [Development] [International Cooperation] [Globalization] [MDGs]
Image: Prof Stiglitz
12/19/2006 Makedonskiot centar za megjunarodna sorabotka (MCMS) za potrebite na programata Lokalen razvoj na zaednicite (LRZ) 2006-2009 raspisuva KONKURS, za tekstovi na tema „Uspesno iskoristuvanje na IPARD fondovite”
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Related: [Macedonia (FYROM)] [Development] [Cities] [Finance]
12/19/2006 Developing countries have successfully resisted pressures to “move first” to end the current stalemate in the Doha Development Round of WTO negotiations. This is a sign of “growing maturity” and is of critical importance as this may well be the “last opportunity” to put the development dimension at the centre stage of WTO negotiations, opined Gopal K Pillai, Commerce Secretary, Government of India and the country’s chief negotiator at the WTO here today.
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Related: [Development] [International Cooperation] [Governance]
Angeline Nyobei Lame from Sudan nurses a child
12/18/2006 Globalisaatio näyttäisi vähentävän seuraavien vuosikymmenien aikana köyhyyttä huomattavasti, mutta suuria haasteita ovat muun muassa tulonjako ja ilmastonmuutos, todetaan "Global Economic Prospects" -raportissa. Raportin mukaan talouskasvu nostaa satoja miljoonia köyhyydestä, uutisoi ulkoministeriö.
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From: Kehitysyhteistyön palvelukeskus, Ulkoministeriö
Related: [Development] [Poverty]
Image: Angeline Nyobei Lame from Sudan nurses a child © Christian Aid /
12/18/2006 Kiinassa valmistellaan uutta työlainsäädäntöä. Huhtikuussa julkistettu lakiluonnos lisäisi työntekijöiden oikeuksia. Työsuojelu ja vähimmäispalkkojen toteutumisen valvonta tehostuisivat. Lisäksi työntekijöiden mahdollisuudet rajoittaa irtisanomisia paranisivat ja viikkotyöaikojen enimmäismääriä rajoitettaisiin.
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From: Suomen Ammattiliittojen Solidaarisuuskeskus
Related: [China] [Labor] [Politics] [Law]
Medha Patkar
12/18/2006 December 10, 2006: Today the world celebrates the 58th anniversary of the UN Charter of Human Rights as the International Human Rights Day, but the people of Singur or Narmada or Raigad (Maharashtra), Dadri-Bajada (UP) cannot partake in these celebrations.
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Related: [India] [Development] [Land] [Poverty] [Human Rights] [Knowledge]
Image: Medha Patkar
12/15/2006 A World Bank report - Global Economic Prospects 2007: Managing the Next Wave of Globalization - released on Friday in Indian capital New Delhi warns that globalization could spur faster growth in developing countries but could be accompanied by growing income inequality and potentially severe environmental pressures.
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Related: [Development] [Poverty] [Environment] [Human Rights] [Globalization]
12/15/2006 New law guaranteeing rural employment may be changing centuries-old power relations in India's villages. Dirt-poor villagers, denied work or cheated, have dared defy local authorities and testify against them in a people's court attended by top government officials.
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Related: [Development] [International Cooperation] [Poverty] [MDGs]
12/15/2006 Meksikon Oaxacan osavaltio ja kaupunki nousivat toukokuussa korruptoituneena ja alistavana pidettyä kuvernööriään vastaan. Maan hallitus lähetti kaupunkiin joukkoja tilanteen selvittämiseksi. Nyt levottomuudet ovat jälleen kiihtyneet. Kyseessä on ollut maan suurin sisäinen sotilasoperaatio zapatistojen kansannousun jälkeen vuonna 1994.
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From: UnMundo América Latina
Related: [Mexico] [Politics] [Governance] [Conflict]
12/15/2006 The Stockholm Challenge GKP Awards 2007 is a new prize, launched by Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) and the Stockholm Challenge. It is designed as an integral part of the Stockholm Challenge 2008 and will open in four of the ordinary six ICT4D categories: Culture, Economic Development, Education and Public Administration. The Stockholm Challenge GKP Awards 2007 opens on 1 January 2007 and will be accessible both from the Stockholm Challenge website and from the GKP portal.
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From: GLobal Knowledge Partnership
Related: [Education] [Culture] [ICT] [Civil Society]
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