Latest International development Stories
TORONTO, April 30, 2012 /CNW/ - The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) could improve its development aid impact by focusing on basic education, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. In What CIDA Should Do: The Case for Focusing Aid on Better Schools, author John Richards documents the importance of universal literacy in enabling countries to escape from extreme levels of poverty and identifies specific types of projects CIDA could fund. Over...
Honoring those who have demonstrated a commitment to innovative approaches to helping the world's poor - April 25, 2012 at 4pm WASHINGTON, April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is an independent U.S. Government foreign aid agency that is helping lead the fight against global poverty through the promotion of sustainable economic growth. MCC is based on the principle that aid is most effective when it reinforces good governance,...
NEW YORK, April 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- WaterAid in America welcomes today's announcement by USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah that USAID will join the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) partnership, a global multi-stakeholder group that brings developing and donor countries together with civil society to tackle the water and sanitation crisis. "We are thrilled that the U.S. government will officially join the partnership. WaterAid is one of the original members of this...
BALTIMORE, April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A serious food crisis is brewing in the Sahel region of West Africa, a region where more than 10 million people already face the threat of hunger every day. Recent failed rains, drought and rising food costs, among other factors, now threaten an additional 3.4 million people. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110714/DC35722LOGO) Thanks to a generous $1.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,...
International Monetary Fund MD Gives Rare Interview to Wharton School's Free Online Journal, Knowledge@Wharton Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) April 04, 2012 WHAT: International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde, who rarely gives interviews, sat down with Knowledge@Wharton, the Wharton School’s online journal of research and analysis, for an in-depth discussion of the European recession. Knowledge@Wharton met with Lagarde in her Washington, D.C. office in collaboration...
Public Citizen and Essential Information Highlight Summers' Troubling Record WASHINGTON, March 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Aghast at the idea that President Barack Obama is considering nominating Lawrence Summers to be president of the World Bank, Public Citizen and Essential Information have launched ForgetLarry.Org, a website urging Obama not to pick Summers to head the World Bank. "The World Bank is the most important economic development institution in the world, and...
WASHINGTON, March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On March 8, International Women's Day, ACDI/VOCA will mark its commitment to gender equity, women's empowerment and inclusive economic development with multiple events in Washington and overseas. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120308/DC67185-a) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120308/DC67185LOGO-b) "With their important economic roles, especially in agriculture but in other sectors too, women are key...
2012 Farm Bill Reauthorization Gives Congress a Chance to Get it Right with International Food Aid WASHINGTON, March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Jewish World Service (AJWS), an international development and human rights organization, today released its latest report, The Time is Now for Food Aid Reform: Five Reasons Why U.S. Policies are Ripe for Reform in the Next Farm Bill. AJWS's paper outlines the benefits of reforming current U.S. global food aid policies as...
World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick announced at The Economist's World Oceans Summit a plan to better manage and protect the world's oceans. Zoellick said governments, international organizations, civil society groups and private interests are joining together under the name "Global Partnership for Oceans" to confront problems like over-fishing, marine degradation, and habitat loss. He said the new partnership would help bring science, advocacy, the private sector, and...
Sharing the top solutions for creating jobs and economic prosperity in America's cities BOSTON, Feb. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), a national non-profit research and strategy organization and the leading authority on inner city economies, announced today the launch of a campaign to aggregate successful urban economic and business development practices. The need to create economic opportunity in America's cities is...
