Archive for February, 2008
Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Millennium Project: Why we must act - and how much it will cost
We’ve reviewed the proposals of the UN Millennium Project, the top-level think-tank set up by Jeffrey Sachs and Kofi Annan to recommend ways for the world to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Like Sachs’ personal plan for ending poverty by 2025, it’s a considerable shopping-list of investments and reforms to be heavily supported by rich-country […]
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Millennium Project: Getting Started
There’s a section in the UN Millennium Project Report entitled “Getting started in 2005 - launching a decade of bold ambition”. The first few sentences make depressing reading. “There is still enough time to meet the Millennium Development Goals - though barely,” it notes. “Without a bold breakthrough in the coming year, a large number […]
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Development: a Super Tuesday primer
The ONE campaign, the modern US incarnation of the Make Poverty History / Global Call to Action on Poverty campaign of 2005, has put together a handy comparison of the presidential candidates’ positions on key development issues. Of the major candidates, as a rule, Hillary Clinton’s are the most detailed and John McCain’s vaguest, with […]
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
Millennium Project: International public goods
A sort of global brain trust established by Kofi Annan to tell the world how to meet the Millennium Development Goals, the Millennium Project proposes major investments in infrastructure and social programmes in poor countries, funded largely by rich-country aid, and reforms to the international trade system. But it also calls for co-operation between rich […]
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