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CARE charts a new path in Africa
2008-06-09 12:12:00 I’ve been exploring the CARE in Africa website. I noticed CARE in relation to the ‘Keyhole’ gardens in Lesotho article on the BBC NEWS website which I did a post about recently. So I decided to find out more about the organisation. CARE began working in Africa in 1961. Today, CARE works in 27 countries that ...
African food crisis: Vultures On The Wing
2008-06-06 16:06:00 A new post contributed by Dave Donelson (x-posted from Daily Kos) Vultures On The Wing Food riots in Somalia, Senegal, Cameroon, Uganda, and elsewhere in Africa and other developing regions have brought the vultures to the scene?-but that may actually be a positive sign. Everyone from huge investment funds like BlackRock to ag ...
Academic paper: Accra 2008 - the bumpy road to aid effectiveness in agricul
2008-06-05 18:36:00 Source: ELDIS Accra 2008: the bumpy road to aid effectiveness in agriculture Authors: Cabral,L. Produced by: Overseas Development Institute [ES] (200 The 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness will be reviewed at the Third High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra in September 2008. The Paris Declaration establishes operating principles for donors and recipient governments to improve ...
Is it Africa?s Turn? Progress in the world?s poorest region.
2008-05-29 16:22:00 The Boston Review has a series of recent articles on progress in Africa. In particular the article by the economist Edward Miguel resonated with me. Miguel has been visiting a small city in Kenya every year since 1997 to help local development-oriented nonprofit organizations design and evaluate their rural programs. In this meaty article the ...
U.N. urges Burma to allow in more foreign aid
2008-05-20 19:27:00 RANGOON, Burma (AP) - The United Nations' top humanitarian official made fresh pleas Tuesday to Burma to allow in more foreign aid for desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis, as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon prepared to travel to the military-run
By: Get rich
Burma 'to take more foreign aid'
2008-05-19 14:00:00 people died in the cyclone Cyclone-hit Burma has agreed to accept increased levels of foreign aid, but only if it is channelled through neighbouring countries.
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Spain to help fight hunger, climate change in Africa
2008-05-12 22:57:00 Source: AlertNet NIAMEY, May 12 (Reuters) - Spain plans to help five poor African countries fight hunger and climate change under a 60 million euro ($90 million) scheme to help the continent whose people flood to Spain in their tens of thousands each year. Spanish First Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega announced the ...
Commission on Sustainable Development considers how to help africa better m
2008-05-09 11:09:00 Source: African Press Organization 8 May 2008 Commission on Sustainable Development Sixteenth Session 8th & 9th Meetings (AM & PM) Commission on Sustainable Development considers how to help africa better manage natural resources, boost agricultural productivity, modernize infrastructure With many African economies heavily dependent on agriculture ? a climate-sensitive sector highly vulnerable to economic and environmental shocks ? the Commission on ...
Many Culprits in Food Crisis
2008-05-09 11:00:00 The following post is contributed by Dave Donelson. Although it is not Africa-specific I feel it may be of interest to those following the current food crisis in African countries. Many Culprits in Food Crisis Dave Donelson, author of Heart of Diamonds Culprits on both the supply and the demand side have caused the current ...
Africa: Who benefits from seed aid?
2008-05-01 13:34:00 A lot is written about emergency aid. One area that I am interested in is the handing out of seeds etc following a drought and the results of this practical type of aid. It is apparent that this is not as simplistic as it might seem. What seeds? Where from? Free or paid for? Who ...
Foreign aid sucessful at solving regional health problems
2008-04-30 19:46:00 Contributed by Dave Donelson http://heartofdiamonds.blogspot-.com http://heartofdiamonds.wordpres-s.com http://photografrica.blogspot.c-om The debate over foreign aid?s ability to improve conditions in the developing world continues unabated as even commentators like Nicholas Kristof can?t find data to support either side. What few argue, however, is the impact aid dollars have had on health care in the third world. Literally millions of lives have ...
Can Foreign Aid Save Africa?, by US Rep. Ron Paul
2008-03-10 21:22:00 Congress is poised to pass the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) authorizing up to $50 million in unconstitutional foreign aid. The bill passed out of the Foreign Affairs Committee with a bipartisan agreement to nearly double the President's requested amount. It is always distressing to see officials in our government reach across the aisle to disregard Constitutional limitations. Much of this aid will run through government-to-government channels and will be vulnerable to corruption. Some of the aid will be sent to faith-based organizations who, along with accepting government largess, will now be subject to governmental controls and will soon become more dependent on taxpayer funding than private funds. If they accept the aid, they must be careful of the vague language regarding what types of programs they can run. For example, the requirement that 33% of any funding received must go toward abstinence-only programs has been dropped and replaced with a 50%...
The Consequences of Bush?s Economic Deals and Expensive Wars?
2008-03-05 14:08:00 GEF @ 6:08 AM MST “If you eat it, drink it, wear it … sit on it, if it is anything other than the air you breathe, an American truck driver made it possible!” wrote trucker Joe Misilewich of Norwich, New York in an e-mail. “Don’t forget it! Without truckers, America is nothing!” Enter Now Bush’s ...
By: Suzie-Q
Your Tax Pesos At Work
2008-02-12 17:48:00 Hey America, thanks for the money,we got you something too. It’s tax time, and you know what that means. The federal government has been skimming money out of your paycheck all year long and now it’s time for you to fill out the forms and ask them nicely if you can have some of it back. While you’re filling out your tax forms this year, I want you to look at box 2 on your W-2 form. That’s how much money the government took from you last year. Now I’m going to tell you how that money is being spent. We can?t finish our own border fence, properly supply our immigration agents and border patrol with all the equipment and resources they need, or get our house in order. Yet, the Bush administration wants to fork over $1.4 billion to Mexico and Central America?with much of it going into the hands of corrupt law enforcement officials and government bureaucrats who have worked tirelessly to undermine our immigration laws. The funding is tucked into the 20...
Foreign Aid for Toronto
2008-01-20 11:39:00 Why hasn’t Toronto’s housing market tanked like London’s or New York’s? Just take a look at who’s buying. Watching the global real estate market from Toronto these days can make you feel a little like Nero with his fiddle. As the sub-prime meltdown spreads from city to city, expensive condos from London to New York now ...
[ Poll ] Foreign Aid? in Liberals Versus Conservatives
2008-01-01 00:00:00 Might Makes Right, 01/01/08 (1 Reply)
America?s Farm Subsidies and the World Economy
2007-12-06 13:00:00 The United States produces a great deal of food each year. Actually, it overproduces food. This is the result of federal farm policies that pay farmers by the amount of crop they produce each year. This results in lower prices for grains, not only in America, but around the world. And the rest of the world isn’t happy about it. So why should I care what the rest of the world thinks? The main reason is national security. It takes a while to get there, but stick with me. The overproduction of any commodity results in the lowering of the price. It is simple supply and demand. In America, the farmer is compensated with subsidies if the market is low. However, farmers in other countries are not. While he was President of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz called for the end of subsidies because of the negative effects they had on poor nations. He understood what I am going to explain to you: Mr Wolfowitz increased pressure on the industrialised world when he said the tempor...
Bob Geldof Attacks Australia?s ?Pathetic? Foreign Aid Support
2007-11-20 15:53:00 Sir Bob Geldof was in Australia yesterday to take on his new role as “Honorary Ambassador for the City of Brisbane” (huh?) and immediately turned the tables on the country by slamming the government for not allocating enough GDP for foreign aid. From the article, “He said, ‘It’s embarrassingly pathetic. In fact, it’s one of the ...
By: Ecorazzi
[TS] OP-ED COLUMNIST; Bono, Foreign Aid And Skeptics
2007-08-16 06:08:00 Getting foreign aid right is harder than it looks. So how do we make aid smarter? More: continued here
[TS] Bono, Foreign Aid and Skeptics
2007-08-09 09:08:00 Getting foreign aid right is harder than it looks. So how do we make aid smarter?… More: continued here
House Votes to Stop Foreign Aid to Saudi Arabia
2007-06-22 23:02:00 The House of Representatives has voted to cut off foreign aid to Saudi Arabia. I’ll repeat that because it may not sink in right away. Cut off foreign aid. We’ve been giving millions of dollars to Saudi Arabia. The world’s leading exporter of oil. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Friday to prohibit any aid to Saudi Arabia as lawmakers accused the close ally of religious intolerance and bankrolling terrorist organizations. The prohibition, reflecting persistent tensions with the kingdom after the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001, was attached to a foreign aid funding bill for next year that has not yet been debated by the Senate. It also faces a veto threat from the White House because of an unrelated provision. A spokesman for the Saudi embassy in Washington declined to comment on the legislation. In the past three years, Congress has passed bills to stop the relatively small amount of U.S. aid to Saudi Arabia, only...
NIA Report Says Senegal is seeking foreign aid to desablise Gambia
2007-06-13 17:20:00 NIA Report Says Senegal was seeking foreign aid to Destabilize Gambia-Serg PMJ exposes! By Serg PMJ Dear Editors, I was busy all these weeks with official duties but now back for a while. I am glad to read from your site that my small boy- the former Banjul Bureau Chief now Editor-In-Chief has safely landed in the United ...
Americans are ?Cheapskates? over Lack of Foreign Aid Spending?
2007-05-05 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Leave it to a liberal to claim that Americans are "cheapskates" because our government does not spend enough money on foreign aid. In the L.A.Times for April 13th, that is just what we are treated to with Rosa Brooks' screed titled, "To the rest of the world, ...
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Americans are ?Cheapskates? over Lack of Foreign Aid Spending?
2007-05-04 20:10:00 Leave it to a liberal to claim that Americans are “cheapskates” because our government does not spend enough money on foreign aid. In the L.A.Times for April 13th, that is just what we are treated to with Rosa Brooks’ screed titled, “To the rest of the world, we’re cheapskates” and subtitled, “The U.S. international affairs ... |
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