Aid
- Humanitarian missions: under threat?
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Is ‘humanitarianism’ at risk? The humanitarian community is operating in a ‘changing’ environment which is forcing it to question its own notions of inclusivity and grapple with the fundamental issue of impartiality. This paper addresses the core issues and concerns of current work in the field - incorporating the views of the ‘recipient communities’ - and offers a series of recommendations to counter its findings of a 'crisis of humanitarianism in the post-9/11 world.'
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- How can Cambodian students be protected from natural disasters?
- ( Asian Disaster Preparedness Center , 2008)
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Natural disasters can cause terrible loss of life. However what is perhaps most disturbing are their impact on the most vulnerable, in institutions where safety should be paramount i.e. patients st...
- Humanitarian missions: under threat?
- ( A. Donini;L. Fast;G. Hansen / Feinstein International Center, USA , 2008)
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Is ‘humanitarianism’ at risk? The humanitarian community is operating in a ‘changing’ environment which is forcing it to question its own notions of inclusivity and gra...
- Rising food prices: time for a revolution in global food policy?
- ( A. Evans / Child Rights Information Network , 2008)
- Global food prices have risen 83 per cent over the last three years, with significant impacts for the world's poorest people. This briefing paper focuses on what this important change means for intern...
- How to use the considerable potential synergies between aid donors and private banks
- ( J. Rodríguez;J. Santiso / OECD Development Centre , 2007)
- Over the past decade, aid donors have shown interest for the private financial sector while, at the same time, private banks have shown increasing concern for corporate social responsibility. Private ...
- Can the media effectively expose corruption in humanitarian aid programmes?
- ( G. Mortensen / Utstein Anti-Corruption Resource Centre , 2006)
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This document brings together the deliberations of a meeting of donors, NGOs and journalists from Sri Lanka, Liberia and Nepal on the role of the media in tackling corruption in humanitarian aid pr...
- Managed float regimes with little sterilisation deal best with aid surges
- ( C. Adam;E. Buffie;S. O'Connell / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford , 2007)
- Highly persistent shocks to aid flows such as HIPC or MDG-related increases in net flows have beneficial long-run effects. However, they produce dramatic macroeconomic management problems in the short...
- Harmonising aid without damaging democracy? The case of Peru
- ( E. Alasino / Fride , 2008)
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The Paris Declaration (PD) was long overdue. The predominance of conditionality in the aid environment has been harmful in its impeding of internal state building; its insistence on specific econom...
- Critical conditions: the IMF maintains its grip on low-income governments
- ( N. Molina;J. Pereira / European Network on Debt and Development , 2008)
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Faced with strong criticism for its expansive and poor use of conditionality, and in the wake of a financial crisis, in 2002 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a set of guidelines ...
- Will a second Green Revolution really solve Africa's problems?
- ( E. Holt-Gimenez;M. Altieri;P. Rosset / Institute for Food and Development Policy , 2008)
- This article analyses the effectiveness of the investment that the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently announced - a joint ‘Alliance for a Green Revolutio...
How to operate in extreme conditions: a survival guide for humanitarian workers
- ( L. Tangen;J. Dyer;K. Julisson / Reliefweb , 2007)
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Humanitarian workers are no longer exempt from attack in conflict situations. Rather it would seem that insurgents – in the brutal theatres of warfare in Iraq, Somalia, Darfur and Afghanistan...
