SID Vienna

UNIDO Director General Li Young introduces the 2013 Industrial Development Report

Honourable Governor, Ewald Nowotny, of the Austrian National Bank, Honourable President, Thomas Nowotny, of Vienna Chapter, Society for International Development, Honourable...

SID Vienna Chapter dialogue on 'food globalization, food sovereignty, food security'.

SID Vienna: global agriculture at crossroads. The discussion has to be conducted against the background of trends in the production and in the consumption of agricultural products...

Post Rio+20 new era at the United Nations

By Pincas Jawetz, SID Vienna Chapter A longer version of this article first appeared on www.SustainabiliTank.info. It analyzes the preparations to the Conference, in Rio at the...

The World Bank, which way forward. Lecture by Konstantin Huber

Summary report by SID Vienna (pdf version) In the recent world economic crisis, the World Bank had been able to pursue a strong anti-cyclical policy, with an annual disbursement...

Greening the economy presented at SID Vienna Chapter's event!

Konstantin Huber, Executive Director at the World Bank, gave a lecture on the World Bank's engagement in poverty reduction and crisis mitigation within old and new approached for...

Access to Energy for All. The Role of Local Initiatives. Upcoming 4-5 June

excerpt from the background note The access to energy is a key issue now and for the years to come. Energy is an indispensable factor of production as well as a necessary...

Green growth: The stakes, issues, interests and views differ between rich and poor countries

by Thomas Nowotny Excerpt from the article Disregarding these differences is bound to deepen the policy gap between the rich and the poor of the earth. As past experience...

SID Vienna Chapter's Reflection on Failure and Success of ODA

by SID Vienna Chapter On January 13th, the Vienna Chapter of the Society for International Development held a meeting to discuss the more than 50 years record of official...