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Summary: Increasing aid and market access for poor countries makes sense but will not do that much good. Wealthy nations should also push other measures that could be far more rewarding, such as giving the poor more control over economic policy, financing new development-friendly technologies, and opening labor markets. Getting Development Right The year 2005 has become the year of development. In September, at the UN Millennium Summ...
How to Help Poor Countries, by Nancy Birdsall, Dani Rodrik, and Arvind SubramanianNews
Substantial support for SMEs came this week in the form of a Nedbank SME Development Project, which was launched on Thursday. Many SMEs disappear from the scene mainly due to the shortage of bookkeeping skills, said the Minister of Trade and Industry, Immanuel Ngatjizeko, in his keynote address to mark the project’s official launch. Nedbank Namibia’s Social Investment Fund will make available N$350 000 for SME development over a three-year period. The p...
Social Fund Invest in SME Capacity ProjectNews
Business has a central role to play in eradicating poverty in Africa, alongside debt relief and greater aid flows, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said Tuesday. Speaking in Paris at a seminar on corporate responsibility in the developing world, Annan said the main responsibilty for meeting the UN’s Millennium Development Goals by a 2015 deadline still rests with governments. But business has a centrol role to play, he sai...
UN chief highlights ’central role’ of business in developmentNews
??We propose to collect data from 25 Agromet centres, under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) present across the country and 83 centres of NCMRWF and link them to the Virtual Academy for Semi-Arid Tropics (VASAT) of ICRISAT, krishi channels and Crop Weather Watch group. The first pilot project is expected to come up soon at Mehboobnagar district in Andhra Pradesh state, ?? Dr Ramakrishna said. The information needs of the farmer include some general information like w...
IT-based agri information system, by MV MahalakshmiNews
The financial industry joined the United Nations today to discuss how the growing microfinance sector can benefit from the expertise of Wall Street. As part of the United Nations International Year of Microcredit, Wall Street professionals focused on their role-making financial services available to the vast numbers of poor and low-income people around the world who currently need them. In her opening remarks, Nane Annan, wife of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, told attendees about he...
Wall Street, UN experts mark International Year of MicrocreditNews
Science, technology and innovation are familiar issues to the G8. In 2000 in Okinawa, G8 leaders established a task force to address the global digital divide, and at the 2003 summit in Evian, G8 leaders endorsed an action plan for science and technology in sustainable development. There is a clear continuing need for these important initiatives. We would like to stress, more generally, the fundamental importance of science, technology and innovation in tackling a wide range of problem...
Joint science academies’ statement: Science and Technology for African DevelopmentNews
What better time to read Capitalism at the Crossroads than in the wake of General Electric’s announcement that it would invest big bucks in eco-friendly technology? The grandfather of industrial conglomerates believes it can make good profits from products that promote fuel efficiency and environmental protection. Stuart Hart , professor of sustainable global enterprise at Cornell’s Johnson School of Mana...
The commercial challenge of solving the ills of the world, by Simon LondonNews
Are the capitalists abandoning capitalism? Tomorrow, General Electric Co. -- icon of American business and the most widely held stock in the world -- will release its first-ever Citizenship Report , a 75-page bow to the bevy of nongovernmental organizations pushing for ever-more corporate social responsibility. The release comes just nine days after GE took the surpr...
Will ’Social Responsibility’Harm Business? by Alan Murray
