EDM November-December 2011
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Cover story
Over 2,500 state and non-state delegates from developed and developing countries, including more than 300 civil society representatives, met from 29 November to 1 December 2011 for the Fourth High ...
News
Participants of a mini-debate on governance in agriculture held in Busan, South Korea on November 30 stressed the need for country-level ownership and greater civil society participation, using a multi-stakeholder ...
Various speakers raised concerns on the effectiveness of climate finance in a forum hosted by IBON International on 3 December entitled “Improving Development Effectiveness in Climate Financing: Challenges and Opportunities.”
Heads of states of largest and developing nations gathered on 3-4 November for the Group of 20 (G20) Summit in Cannes, France but failed to come up with concrete plans ...
DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 11, 2011 (IPS) — The world is increasingly committed to dangerous levels of global warming with yet another failure by nations of the world to agree ...
US-LED free trade agreements (FTAs) continue to face stiff opposition even as they gain traction with some governments turning to such pacts in the hope of boosting their sagging economies.
As shock waves from Greece's economic crisis emanate across the Eurozone and the Occupy protests in the U.S. grow bolder in their critique of the dominant neoliberal system, it seems ...
Statement
The next ten years could decide whether the world’s fight against climate change is lost or won. The Durban Package – the set of decisions agreed to in the summit ...
Civil society have come together as a unified community and participated constructively in the processes leading to Busan, the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF4), including the final ...
Features
Background
Since the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong in 2005, “Aid for Trade” (AfT) has become the new catchphrase in international development to foster and promote ...
Trade has been a contentious issue in U.S. politics for a very long while. In recent times, free trade agreements have been promoted as essential by the cheerleaders of globalization, ...
Large-scale agricultural land acquisitions are generating conflicts and controversies around the world. A growing body of reports show that these projects are bad for local communities, and that they promote ...
Book Review
In a word, the problem isn’t neoliberalism – it’s capitalism. – Ruth Wilson Gilmore, 2011
The popular neo-Keynesian Cambridge (United Kingdom) economist Ha-Joon Chang is a clever man who ...
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