Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Aprille Muscara WASHINGTON, Feb 19, 2011 (IPS) – With a 2015 deadline fast approaching to meet a collective global promise to tackle poverty and improve education, health and environmental sustainability around the world, development and humanitarian advocates are up in arms over conservative lawmakers’ proposals to slash [...]
U.S.: Military Intervention Trumping Humanitarian Aid
February 10, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Aprille Muscara WASHINGTON, Feb 10, 2011 (IPS) – In the midst of a belt-tightening political climate in which pledges by prominent lawmakers to slash the United States’ foreign affairs budget will likely soon be realised, some rights groups and experts are concerned about the increasingly blurry distinction [...]
UN Keen to Reinforce Disaster Reduction Strategies
February 10, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Richard Johnson IDN-InDepth NewsReport GENEVA (IDN) – Poverty, rapid urbanization and the impact of climate change resulted in 950 disasters in 2010, making it one of the deadliest years in more than a generation. Some 300,000 people were killed by earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and China, floods [...]
The Future of Development Cooperation Hangs in Balance
December 14, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN Eckhard Deutscher, DAC Chair, Presents 10 Theses IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint PARIS (IDN) – Security affected all areas of policy-making in the twentieth century; in the current century, development will. Communication, therefore, needs to make clear what development cooperation is really about in a fast changing world. But the existing [...]
Europe Wants Social Protection for the Poor in Africa
December 14, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Jaya Ramachandran IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BRUSSELS (IDN) – European institutions dealing with international development have realized that poverty cannot be eradicated by concessional loans, technical aid, grants or budget aid alone. Something more is required: social protection for the poor. The European Report on Development (ERD), launched in [...]
Germany Receives Kudos Mixed with Criticism
October 28, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Richard Johnson IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis PARIS (IDN) – Germany has been praised for its development cooperation efforts aimed at ushering in a more just world. But kudos come with criticism couched in diplomatic jargon. The essence of the message to Berlin is: continue to consolidate your strength but [...]
U.S. Aid Shift Envisions Path to Self-Sufficiency
October 25, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Matthew O. Berger WASHINGTON, Oct 25, 2010 (IPS) – As part of a more general promise of reform to U.S. development policy, the U.S. Agency for International Development is poised to fundamentally alter the way it tackles poverty overseas. When President Barack Obama announced a new Global [...]
PAKISTAN: HOW TO EXTRACT PROTECTION MONEY FROM US
October 25, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN The third US-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue for the year 2010 concluded at Washington DC on October 22,2010. The two sides fielded high-power delegations for the dialogue as they had done for the first two rounds held earlier this year in Washington DC and Islamabad. The US delegation was headed by [...]
Churchill Denied Relief to Bengal Famine Victims, Book Says
October 25, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Sananda Sahoo WASHINGTON, Oct 25, 2010 (IPS) – A new book on the Indian famine of 1943, also known as the Bengal famine named after the specific region where it occurred, has squarely put the responsibility for the famine on then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The [...]
Pakistan’s ‘Rogue Units’ Excluded from U.S. Military Aid
October 24, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Ernest Corea IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis WASHINGTON DC (IDN) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s announcement of a $2 billion military aid package would have pleased her Pakistani colleagues. Note, however, that the cheque is not yet in the mail. Clinton’s announcement was made on the final day [...]
