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Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary-General of the OECD, has big ideas for educational reform. 
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Irish ports and UNCTAD sign new cooperation agreement
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Product development public-private partnerships for public health:
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Today, at the Social Capital Markets conference (SOCAP), the U.S.
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KROTOASA RESEARCH-INTENSIVE INSTITUTE (KRII)'s insight:
Yeah, that’s a provocative headline. No, we’re not talking about some movie thriller like Constant Gardner, in which an evil drug company does some deadly experimentation on hapless Africans. We’re talking about reality with a medical anthropologist, James Pfeiffer, about one of the root causes of the massive outbreak of Ebola now ravaging West Africa. It is the aid and development community – the same folks now responding to the rescue. As the cartoon character Pogo put it: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
According to Pfeiffer, who is a professor of global health and anthropology at the University of Washington, the popular narrative of the Ebola outbreak often points to weak governance, poverty and poor health systems as one of the primary reasons why this infectious disease has exploded in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. That’s absolutely true, he says.
But what is usually not mentioned in the narrative, Pfeiffer adds, is how Western agencies devoted to reducing global poverty like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank imposed policies on these countries (sometimes referred to as structural adjustment) that for decades has discouraged many African nations from investing in public infrastructure – such as basic health care systems.
What is also neglected is that the Western humanitarian community, the NGOs (non-governmental organizations), that are now trying to help – in many cases, courageously – fight this devastation also helped contribute to the weakening of in-country health care services. How? You’ll need to give a listen to Pfeiffer to find out.
And as usual for our weekly podcast, Tom Paulson and I talk about some of the news highlights this week, including the Obama Administration’s massive and very welcome quasi-military response to the Ebola outbreak, the broader Humanospheric implications of independence movements in places like Scotland, in the U.S. (including here, as the Cascadia movement) and how these movements may help empower people in poor countries.
We also talk about Tom Murphy’s report on why buying TOMS shoes may hurt the poor and a new study by Seattle scientists who say the world population is not stabilizing and may reach 11 billion by the end of the millennium.
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Australian Aid for Australian Trade
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USA TODAY Battle against ISIL sets up 2016 campaign issue USA TODAY Rand Paul, R-Ky., who is considering a presidential bid, voted against aid for Syrian rebel groups, saying it is unclear which groups are truly opposed to ISIL and to the Syrian...
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Hopes dashed for new South Sudan economy as war grinds on and famine looms Reuters In the capital Juba, a muddy Nile trading post where new office blocks had begun rising, trading firms and banks that had sprung up now struggle to survive after...
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This think piece on promoting aid effectiveness through alternative means is provided by William O. Ruddick, Associate Scholar, Institute for Leadership and Sustainability. Via jean lievens
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Rwanda went to the 4th High Level Fourm on Aid Effectiveness in Busan last year with the agenda of increasing transparency and ending untied aid.
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Aid is a vital tool in the fight against global poverty. But too often, aid delivers less than it promises. If you follow the debate over development aid, you've probably heard that there was a big conference last year in Korea that was meant to make aid work better. Oxfam's new briefing paper Busan in a Nutshell - is intended as your guide to what happened at that conference, the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. Busan in a Nutshell explains what happened at Busan, and how implementers and advocates need to work together to make sure the global community delivers on its promise of more effective aid.
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Since the turn of the century, results orientation and performance measurement have become buzzwords in development aid. Bilateral donors are increasingly concerned about the effectiveness of core-funded UN specialised agencies, funds and programmes, through which they channel a substantial part of their funds.
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Since the turn of the century, results orientation and performance measurement have become buzzwords in development aid. Bilateral donors are increasingly concerned about the effectiveness of core-funded UN specialised agencies, funds and programmes, through which they channel a substantial part of their funds. Read full publication by Koen De Koster (BTC's Monitoring and Evaluation Department - Brussels) and Nathalie Holvoet (Institute of Development Policy and Management - University of Antwerp).
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You can’t fuel your car with it or pressurize it into a precious stone, but severe droughts this summer remind us that though we seldom think of water as precious, it’s precious indeed.
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Australian Aid for Australian Trade http://t.co/VbUmDM7gMr #BeyondAid
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The French government said it would provide aid for the country's farmers in a bid to appease fruit and vegetable producers whose frustration with falling revenues has culminated in violent protests.
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Trying To Build Sustainability And Aid Effectiveness through Procurement Reform. Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw6gJi5qM9M
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Joint EU-ACP conference 2014 Addis Ababa Photo- Andualem Sisay Gessesse New Business Ethiopia Aid for Trade (AfT) is one of several global initiatives launched, over the years, to help developing countries to integrate into the global economy...
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European companies allowed to reap rewards from deadly conflict mineral trade Amnesty International The European Union is failing to stifle a deadly trade in conflict minerals, a coalition of rights groups including Global Witness and Amnesty...
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Lula's China tilt leaves Brazil paying for trade dependence
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International relief and development organization Oxfam America praised USAID’s FORWARD Progress Report released today as an honest review of the reforms taken up by the agency to increase the effectiveness of America’s global poverty-fighting efforts. In reaction, Gregory Adams, Oxfam America’s director of aid effectiveness made the following statement: “The USAID FORWARD progress report shows the remarkable progress that USAID has made to improve the impact of America’s efforts to fight poverty. Oxfam’s own forthcoming research echoes these findings—that USAID’s reform progress has been significant and measureable, and that local partners are finding the US to be a better development partner. The USAID FORWARD reforms are working to enlist local leaders and citizens as partners in making sure American aid dollars deliver the greatest impact to fight poverty. Via W. Robert de Jongh
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This ODI Briefing Paper discusses the effectiveness of Aid for Trade.
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Time to Listen summarizes the experiences and analysis of nearly 6,000 people in 20 aid receiving countries, as well as the reflections of aid workers themselves, on the effectiveness of international aid efforts as captured through The Listening Project.
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Corruption has a devastating impact on developing and transition countries, with estimates of $20 billion to $40 billion per year stolen by public officials, a figure equivalent to 20 to 40 percent of flows of official development assistance. The return of the proceeds of corruption--asset recovery--can have a significant development impact. Returns can be used directly for development purposes, such as improvements in the health and education sectors and reintegration of displaced persons, with additional benefits of improved international cooperation and enhanced capacity of law enforcement and financial management officials. Development agencies and those committed to development effectiveness have a role in the asset recovery process. They have made international commitments to fight corruption and recover the proceeds of corruption in the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness: Accra Agenda for Actions, held in Accra in 2008, and the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness: Partnership for Effective Development, held in Busan in 2011. Despite these efforts, there has been difficulty in translating these commitments into concrete action. This StAR-OECD publication reports on how OECD countries are performing on asset recovery. Drawing on data collected between 2006 and 2012, the report provides recommendations and good practices and suggests specific actions for development agencies.
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