Knowledge Centre : Economy : Financing for Development (FfD) : Page 2
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- Financing for Development Indepth Report
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The opportunity that came up in Monterrey can turn into a road to nowhere without an injection of political will (Chioke, 2008).
http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/32.html
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- Financing For Development: Finding The Money To Eliminate World Poverty
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House of Commons International Development Committee, Fifth Report of Session 2001-02, Volume I, Published on 24 July 2002. Meeting the Millennium Development Goals will require an additional US$50 billion in aid per year, a doubling of current aid levels. The aim of the Monterrey Summit was not solely to increase aid; rather it was to mobilise, and increase the effective use of financial resources in order to meet the MDG targets. The most dramatic outcomes of the summit process were the aid increases announced by the EU and the USA which total an extra US$12 billion per year. This is less than a quarter of the funds needed to meet the MDG targets. Nevertheless, we welcome these increases as steps in the right direction. This report examines financing for development as part of an emerging global new deal, looking at the conference preparations and outcomes, and at a range of issues which were discussed, including innovative sources of finance, aid, trade and debt relief. (From Eldis)
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmselect/cmintdev/785/785.pdf
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- Financing for Development: World Economic and Social Survey 2005 [PDF]
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United Nations, New York, 2005. The World Economic and Social Survey 2005 provides a comprehensive review of the wide-ranging challenges addressed in the Monterrey Consensus. Its overarching conclusion is that while gains have been made in some areas, an immediate and substantial scaling up of effort is needed, especially in the poorest countries.
http://www.un.org/esa/policy/wess/wess2005files/wess2005web.pdf
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- Foster, Mick, Adrian Fozzard (2000)
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pdf file). "Aid and Public Expenditure: A Guide"(pdf format) ODI Working Paper
http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/working.html#latest
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- Freedom of civil society organizations debated
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Establishment of civil society organizations and their freedom to own media outlets of all sorts including broadcast rights, freedom of information access, transparency and funding were the main points discussed during the launch of the Freedom of Civil Society conference. (Yemen observer, 4/2/08)
http://www.yobserver.com/front-page/10013673.html
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- From illegitimacy to responsibility: transforming development finance
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This report summarises the presentations and discussions of the Eurodad conference "From illegitimacy to responsibility: transforming development finance" which was held in Berlin on 1-2 November 2006.
http://www.eurodad.org/uploadstore/cms/docs/AC2006report.pdf
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- G8 Information Centre
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What is the G8? This website provides information on past and present G8 summits, research and other resources about the G8. The G8 Information Centre is provided by the University of Toronto Library and the G8 Research Group at the University of Toronto.
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- Gender and the Financing for Development Agenda (UNIFEM)
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Vital financial resources for development are increasingly being steered towards meeting monetary and financial goals, to the neglect of meeting basic human needs, such as health, education and social services. Debt servicing, lack of development assistance targeted to women's needs and unregulated private capital flows often increase the burden of care on women, decrease their access to health care and education systems and increase the incidence of trafficking of women and girls as families are forced to find alternative means of survival.
http://www.unifem.undp.org/ffd/
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- Global Development Finance 1999
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A World Bank publication that tracks the annual movement of international capital flows to developing countries.
http://www.worldbank.org/prospects/gdf99/
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- Global Development Finance 2003: Striving for Stability in Development Finance
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(World Bank) With analysis spanning the range of flows from sophisticated market transactions to emergency aid, Global Development Finance 2003 is unique in its breadth of coverage of the issues related to international development finance. In putting all development-related flows in a consistent framework, the publication will allow government officials, economists, investors, financial consultants, academics, bankers, and the entire development community to better understand, manage, and promote the key challenge of financing development.
http://www.worldbank.org/prospects/gdf2003/
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- Global Development Finance 2004: Harnessing Cyclical Gains for Development
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World Bank, 2004. With analysis and data spanning from short-term trade to long-term infrastructure finance, Global Development Finance 2004 is unique in its breath of coverage of the issues related to international development finance. By providing a comprehensive review of recent trends in and prospects for all development-related flows (including debt, equity, official aid, and workers' remittances), Global Development Finance 2004 enables government officials, economists, investors, financial consultants, academics, and policymakers in the development community to better understand, manage, and promote the key challenge of financing development in today's globalized environment.
http://www.worldbank.org/prospects/gdf2004
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- Global Taxes: Policy Instruments & Revenue Sources - The Global Policy Forum
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This section of the website explores global taxes and their dual role as policy instruments and as revenue sources for international programs and institutions. Many policymakers, scholars, government agencies and international organizations have favored global taxes in recent years, to solve global problems. More and more, citizen groups are calling for this tax-based approach, even though the United States government has blocked intergovernmental discussions and negotiations. This page explores the different ways in which global taxes can be implemented, the need for democratic oversight and control, the policy shaping effects, distributive effects, and the possible use of such taxes to fund the UN, its agencies like the World Health Organization, and other programs for worldwide human security and development.
http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/glotax/index.htm
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- IFIwatchnet
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IFIwatchnet connects organisations worldwide which are monitoring international financial institutions (IFIs) such as the World Bank, the IMF, and regional development banks. IFIwatchnet is a new tool for networking and collaboration amongst the many civil society organisations which are monitoring and campaigning on the international financial institutions (IFIs).
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- Impoverishing a Continent: The World Bank and the IMF in Africa [PDF]
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This report provides an overview of the World Bank, the IMF and structural adjustment and looks at the effects of conditions imposed by the World Bank and the IMF's SAPs, on Africa generally and on three African countries, Zimbabwe, Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire, in particular. (Asad Ismi, July 2004)
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- In the public Interest: health, education, and water and sanitation for all
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This report shows that developing countries will only achieve healthy and educated populations if their governments take responsibility for providing essential services. Civil society organisations and private companies can make important contributions, but they must be properly regulated and integrated into strong public systems, and not seen as substitutes for them. Only governments can reach the scale necessary to provide universal access to services that are free or heavily subsidised for poor people and geared to the needs of all citizens - including women and girls, minorities, and the very poorest. Rich country governments and international agencies such as the World Bank should be crucial partners in supporting public systems, but too often they block progress by failing to deliver debt relief and predictable aid that supports public systems. They also hinder development by pushing private sector solutions that do not benefit the poor. (Oxfam, September 2006)
http://www.oxfam.org/en/files/bp_public_interest/download
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- International Development Economics Associates
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IDEAs has been established with the purpose of building a pluralist network of heterodox economists engaged in the teaching, research and application of critical analyses of economic development. While the organization will be South-based, the network will be open to all committed to developing more appropriate and progressive analysis of development challenges.
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- International Funding Services Website
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IFIS is an Internet portal entirely and exclusively dedicated to international funding. It's purpose is to contribute to the dissemination of all information relative to the funding process of international development institutions, both bilateral and multilateral. You can sign up for a free 30 day trial.
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- New Rules for Global Finance
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New Rules for Global Finance is a coalition of development, human rights, labor, environmental, and religious organizations and scholars dedicated to the reform of the global financial architecture in order to stabilize the world economy, reduce poverty and inequality, uphold fundamental rights, and protect the environment. Through technically expert and inclusive dialogues we analyze existing financial institutions and processes to propose alternatives that will bring about more equitable and environmentally responsible results.
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- New sources of development finance: Funding the Millennium development goals
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By A. B. Atkinson (2004). This Policy Brief summarizes the key findings of the study carried out by UNUWIDER to determine innovative sources for development finance in order to meet the challenges of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Developing countries are mobilizing resources themselves to meet the MDG targets by 2015, but they will fall short without additional external flows. Increased private and public money is needed in order for the world's poorest countries to invest in the basic services and infrastructure necessary for human development, and to improve livelihoods and employment for poor people.
http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/policy-brief/PB10.pdf
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- NextBillion.net
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NextBillion.net, launched in May 2005, is the flagship website of the Development Through Enterprise (DTE) program. DTE, a part of the World Resources Institute, works alongside the New Ventures and Business Environment Learning Leadership programs to fulfill the Institute's objective of fostering "Sustainable Growth in Emerging Economies." Successful business models--inherently versatile, innovative, and driven by the profit motive--can sometimes tackle development challenges more quickly and effectively than government and aid mechanisms, and are the focus of NextBillion.net.
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- NGO Caucus for Financing for Development - egroup
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Founded on 5 June 2000. 327 members at 18 March 2002.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ffdngocaucus/
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- NGO Forum on Asian Development Bank
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The NGO Forum on ADB (FORUM) is an Asian-led network of non-government and community-based organizations that support each other in order to amplify their positions on Asian Development Bank's policies, programs, and projects affecting life forms, resources, constituents - the local communities.
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- Pipe Dreams: The failure of the private sector to invest in water services in developing countries [pdf]
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The last 15 years of donor policy has been based on the idea that the 'competition and efficiency' of privatisation provides the answer to the global water crisis. But this report calls this idea a pipe dream, demonstrating that water privatisation has failed to deliver even the investment promised, let alone sufficient investment to connect new communities in the kinds of numbers needed. What makes this even worse is that, while international donors have promoted the role of the private sector as investors in the water sector, at the same time they have substantially cut their own investment in this area. As a result, the net contribution of 15 years of privatisation has been to significantly reduce the funds available to poor countries for investment in water, by billions of dollars. The report finds that it vital that donors and governments are honest with people about the limits of water privatisation, and develop a new strategy for investing in public water systems to make good on their MDG promises. (World Development Movement, March 2006)
http://www.wdm.org.uk/resources/briefings/aid/pipedreamsfullreport.pdf
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- Poverty-Complex, Strategic Microfinance, and Social Threefolding
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Center for Alternative Development Initiatives, Editorial, N. Perlas, 02 April 2005. The Year 2005 is the International Year for Microcredit. From its small beginnings in Bangladesh in the 1970s, microcredit has become a global phenomenon. When Mohammed Yunus facilitated the first microcredit for economically poor women, he did not realize that he would trigger a global movement which, among others, would make microcredit one of the key strategies of the UN Millennium Development Goals. But microcredit is not enough. Microcredit alone would not solve the problem of the poverty-complex. In addition to livelihood problems, persons struggling with poverty also have to face other challenges. Economic livelihood alone will not enable the poor to develop their full human potential and their communities.
http://www.cadi.ph/Editorials/Poverty_Complex.htm
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- Predictable funding for humanitarian emergencies: a challenge to donors [PDF]
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Oxfam, 24 October 2005. Every year the lives of millions of people are devastated by natural disasters, conflict and other humanitarian emergencies. 2005 has seen particularly extreme humanitarian emergencies including the tsunami, the Sahel food crisis, and hurricanes Katrina and Stan. Tackling these crises requires a range of actions including immediate humanitarian assistance and long-term development. This short paper focuses on one concrete way in which the global humanitarian response could be improved to help prevent avoidable suffering and death - the upgrading of the existing UN Central Emergency Revolving Fund (CERF) to a new Central Emergency Response Fund.
http://www.oxfam.org/eng/pdfs/bn051024_CERF_predictablefunding.pdf
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