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FFD3 Outcome Document adopted without intergovernmental tax body or new financial commitments

Submitted on the 19th of July 2015 by Bhumika Muchhala.
by Bhumika Muchhala and Ranja Sengupta, Third World Network The Third Conference on Financing for Development: Outcome document adopted without intergovernmental tax body or new...

Chinese Asked to Grow Crops in Uganda

Submitted on the 25th of June 2015 by Food and Nutrition.
Source: Daily Monitor, Uganda Agriculture Minister Tress Bucyanayandi has called on Chinese to grow food in Uganda to meet its own growing food deficit. Mr Bucyanayandi, who was...

Immigration, Myths and the Irresponsibility of Europe

Submitted on the 8th of June 2015 by Roberto Savio.
ROME, Jun (IPS) - With little fanfare, the German IFO Institute for Economic Research recently published a report on population projections for Germany which states simply that...

Lost in Indicators: How the 'experts' are rewriting the SDGs

Submitted on the 8th of June 2015 by Roberto Bissio.
By Roberto Bissio | Almost one third of the targets that define the 17 Sustainable Development Goals approved by the governments at the UN are being de facto rewritten or deleted...

Pillar of Neoliberal Thinking is Vacillating

Submitted on the 5th of May 2015 by Roberto Savio.
ROME, Apr 20 2015 (IPS) - This month’s World Economic Outlook released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) only confirms that consequences of the collapse of the financial...

Tanzanian perspectives: Bullish about regional integration

Submitted on the 17th of April 2015 by Greater Horn Quarterly.
The third issue of the Greater Horn Quarterly (GHQ) from the Futures Program of the Society for International Development (SID) continues monitoring debates, highlighting trends...

On the way to the Addis Ababa Conference on Financing for Development

Submitted on the 11th of February 2015 by Roberto Bissio.
The sovereign debt of today, particularly in developed countries that are highly indebted, is the results of the irresponsible indebtedness of the private sector that was bailed...

Europe has lost its compass

Submitted on the 16th of December 2014 by Roberto Savio.
Rome Dec 13, 2014 - The Swedish Social Democrat government, which took office only two months ago, has just resigned. The far-right anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats sided with the...

The suicide of Europe

Submitted on the 6th of December 2014 by Roberto Savio.
The fact that in a referendum Switzerland has taken a path that is opposite that of Europe is an unusual fact which calls for reflection, especially because Switzerland has taken...

The decline of social Europe is part of the world trend

Submitted on the 26th of November 2014 by Roberto Savio.
After the Italian sea search-and-rescue operation Mare Nostrum at a cost of nine million euros a month, through which the Italian Navy has rescued nearly 100,000 migrants –...

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