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Revised Edition: The political economy of global commitments 21/11/2012 1 documents 22 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Aid effectiveness Debt Development methods FP2P From Poverty to Power MDGs Millenium Development Goals Overview What are the lessons of the Millennium Development Goals process to date? What has been their impact on aid and national government decision making? This paper seeks to inform the post-2015 debate by examining these questions. It argues that leverage over national governments and civil society involvement will increasingly eclipse leverage on aid as the […] View resource Journal article Debt-for-development exchanges in Australia: past, present and future 01/09/2012 13 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Advocacy Campaigning Debt Debt relief Trade policy Overview Debt-for-development exchanges are one technique through which to address the ongoing debt crisis in the less-developed world. This paper discusses how Australia’s first debt-for-development exchange, with Indonesia, came into being, and explores future possibilities for Australian debt exchanges. It is an interesting example of how activists and advocates can successfully pursue innovative public policy solutions […] View resource Journal article Strengthening the voice of the poor: religious organisations’ engagement in policy consultation processes in Nigeria and Tanzania 01/08/2012 10 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Civil society Co-operatives Debt Debt relief Development in Practice Journal DiP Faith Livelihoods Overview This paper describes attempts in Nigeria and Tanzania to build the capacity of selected religious organisations to participate in policy consultation processes, by strengthening their ability to speak effectively to governments on behalf of poor communities. These attempts arose out of enquiries into the limited involvement of faith-based organisations in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper […] View resource Book Be Outraged: There are alternatives 21/05/2012 1 documents 72 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Civil society Corporate responsibility Debt Debt relief Social protection World Bank and IMF World Trade Organisation WTO Overview An international group of economists and social scientists argue in this book that austerity is bad economics, bad arithmetic, and ignores the lessons of history. They are outraged at the narrow range of austerity policies which are bringing so many people around the world to their knees, especially in Europe. ‘Be Outraged’ argues that austerity […] View resource Issue briefing Risky Business: Intermediary lending and development finance 18/04/2012 3 documents 10 pages long Languages: English, French, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Corporate responsibility Debt Development methods Finance Food security Land rights Programme management Protection Smallholder agriculture Social protection World Bank and IMF Overview This issue briefing highlights the increasing use by development finance institutions of financial intermediaries to channel their funding. It identifies features of this lending and the implications for affected communities’ access to land and resources. It also provides recommendations for addressing concerns related to these investments. View resource Journal article Can microcredit worsen poverty? Cases of exacerbated poverty in Bangladesh 01/11/2011 12 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Debt Development in Practice Journal DiP Finance Microcredit Microfinance Protection Overview Worldwide, microcredit has been recognised as a successful innovation in poverty alleviation. However, some claim that microcredit exacerbates poverty in developing countries. This study examines cases in Bangladesh where microcredit has actually worsened poverty among borrowers and investigates the underlying reasons for this adverse trend. Our results show that microcredit can exacerbate poverty in four […] View resource Book The Urgency of Now: A small book about the madness of inequality and poverty: how they’re wrecking people’s lives and why doing something about them will make things better for us all 23/06/2008 2 documents 35 pages long Languages: English, French Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Debt Overview The urgency of now is essential reading for development, international politics, economics, and business students, activists and campaigners, and anyone interested in globalisation or development issues. In fact it’s for anyone with a questioning mind. The urgency of now accompanies Oxfam’s publication From Poverty to Power. View resource Briefing note Debt and Public Services 01/10/2007 1 documents 4 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Debt Debt relief Finance Overview The debt crisis has its origins in the 1970s and 1980s, when rich governments and companies lent huge sums to developing countries, often knowingly to corrupt regimes and to serve their own political or commercial ends. Whilst there have been major steps forward in cancelling debt, in response to campaigner pressure, the rich world has […] View resource Briefing note The View from the Summit: Gleneagles G8 one year on 09/06/2006 4 documents 17 pages long Languages: English, French, German, Japanese Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Debt Debt relief World Bank and IMF Overview On 31 March 2006 the Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa announced that from that day on basic health care would be free to everyone. This was made possible partly due to the money saved following the cancellation of Zambia’s $5 billion debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). A visit to the clinic for basic medicines, […] View resource Briefing paper Justice for Nigeria: Why the UK should return Nigeria’s £1.7 billion to fight poverty 01/02/2006 1 documents 4 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Debt Debt relief Overview Nigeria, one of the poorest countries in the world, is in the process of giving a huge sum of money to the richest countries. UK organisations which are members of the Jubilee Debt Campaign are urging the UK government to return its share of this money to Nigeria to fight poverty. View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 … Page 5 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know