A global social response, by President Bachelet
A global social response The world is facing an extraordinarily challenging moment, marked by the emergence of a series of different crises that, together, will require the international community’s maximum attention and efforts. Following the 2007 food crisis, in 2008 we faced the most serious global financial and economic crisis since 1929. Both coincided with the growing realization that mankind must deal with another deeper and larger crisis; climate change. As a response to these crises, over the past year the international community has seen an unprecedented degree of mobilization aimed at reactivating the international economy and laying the foundation for an international agreement on global warming. In some saes there has been real progress. The G-20 has agreed on a series of (...)
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- Programme of the Santiago Conference, 28-29.1. (12-01-2010)
- Seventh plenary session of the Leading Group, Santiago, (...) (11-01-2010)
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Shrinking migrant remittances on the rise after crisis
26 January 2010
Migrant remittances to developing countries totalled an estimated $338 billion in 2008 according to the most recent figures published by the World Bank. In 2008 the main countries benefiting from these money transfers were India, China, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, Nigeria, Romania, Bangladesh, Egypt and Vietnam. The main countries (...)Global lottery
6 January 2010
Presented in the Landau report’s menu of options, the idea of a global lottery or a “humanitarian lottery” has been aired regularly in a number of UN forums since 1972. Recently, it has been advocated by the WFP, the FAO and the IFAD, together with Martti Ahtisaari, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former UN Under-Secretary (...)A global social response, by President Bachelet
5 January 2010
The world is facing an extraordinarily challenging moment, marked by the emergence of a series of different crises that, together, will require the international community’s maximum attention and efforts. Following the 2007 food crisis, in 2008 we faced the most serious global financial and economic crisis since 1929. Both coincided with the (...)PRESS: A tax for globalisation based on solidarity, by Pochmann and Schutte
5 January 2010
The most recent meeting of the G20 in Pittsburgh ended with a declaration in which the participants affirmed that they were meeting in the midst of a critical moment in the crisis, and wished “to turn the page on an era of irresponsibility” and to adopt a set of policies, regulations and reforms to meet the needs of the 21st century global (...)Marketplace on innovative financial solutions for development, Paris, 4-5.3.2010
4 January 2010
The French Development Agency, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Bank are co-organizing the Marketplace on Innovative Financial Solutions for Development which is to take place on 4 and 5 March 2010 at the Conference Centre of the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie in La Villette, Paris, (...)
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