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Financial Crisis: Davos Summit Wants to "Shape the Post-Crisis World"
  
The 39th edition of the World Social Forum is taking place from the 28th of January to the 1st of February 2009. This edition of the Davos Summit is particular as it must address what may be the worst financial crisis since the first summit in 1971. 2500 participants from 96 countries will work around the theme of “Shaping the post-crisis world”.
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- 02.02.2009, International Herald Tribune
Where Would We Be if Women ran Wall Street
By Katrin Bennhold
Would the world be in this financial mess if it had been Lehman Sisters? That question, asked by the moderator of one panel here, certainly hit a nerve with some of the more defensive male participants at the World Economic Forum.
- 01.02 2009, The Financial Times
No consensus on restoring trust in business
By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
Business leaders, stunned by their loss of public trust and fearful of a further backlash, vowed at the weekend to join forces more often in order to share the burden of tackling challenges from shrinking demand to climate change.
- 29.01.2009, The Financial Times
Africans Fear Economic "Abandonment"
The serious threat to African economies posed by the global financial crisis is an emerging theme at the World Economic Forum. Politicians and economists have stressed that an era of relative optimism about Africa’s economic prospects is coming to a close.
- 28.01.2009, BBC News
Davos starts in very Gloomy mood by Tim Weber
“A gloomy economic outlook dominates discussions as global political leaders and business people gather for the annual World Economic Forum in Davos.”
- 25.01.2009, International Herald Tribune
At Davos, crisis culls the guest list by Nelson D. Schawrtz
“The Masters of the Universe no longer sit atop the magic mountain.”
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Trade and Development: friends not foes
Today, for the first time, the European Commission presents a joint vision of how trade, investment and development policies can work hand in hand to help fighting poverty. I am proud of this Communication, which provides a complete, comprehensive and well articulated approach of how best to combine our respective competencies and instruments. Sorry for [...]
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Aid has to be modernised; EU is not pulling out from middle income countries (MICs)
The European Union, like many other donors, is currently exploring the best ways to fight against poverty around the world. Faced with differentiation between developing countries, some of which have become aid donors themselves while others suffer from increasing fragility, the EU must ensure the greatest impact and best value for money for its aid. [...]
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A View from Busan
I’m just back from the Busan High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, which took place in South Korea last week. It was a busy few days of negotiations, exchanges and discussions, but I’m glad to say that we finally agreed on an outcome which I think we can all be proud of.
The Global Partnership [...]
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The European Parliament as the voice of the citizens – my experience from last week
I have been at the Plenary of the European Parliament a number of times, always a learning experience. Last week was no exception. And it is worth telling my readers about it, since the Parliament discussed a report of direct relevance for my work – a review of humanitarian funds management drafted by MEP [...]
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Chad’s silent children – the sad face of malnutrition
In the city of Mao in Kanem province in Chad, there is a hospital we fund where the sound of silence on the children’s ward is chilling.
It’s strange to be with children who are so quiet. In the intensive care ward where they are treating babies for severe acute malnutrition there are fifteen mothers with [...]
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The mothers of Niger
I met Rahi Harouna when she was making an important life decision – and getting moral support from what many may regard as a surprising source.
Rahi, a 38-year-old mother of five children, was at a health centre run by the aid agency Concern and funded by the European Commission in the village of [...]
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