Primer on Aid and Development Effectiveness: At a Crossroads at Busan?
From November 29 to December 1, 2011, the High Level Forum IV on Aid Effectiveness will be held in Busan, South Korea. Some 2,000 representatives of governments, multilateral organizations, civil...
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IBON Primer on G-20 now off the press!
IBON together with its partners, Vikas Adhyayan Kendra (VAK), Institute for National and Democratic Studies (INDIES), Africaine de Recherche et de Cooperation pour l'Appui au Developpement Endogene...
View ArticleIBON Primer on Climate Finance
Clearly, poor people in the developing world who contributed least to climate change are also the first and foremost affected by it.
View ArticleIBON Primer on System Change
There is now growing awareness that the global ecological crisis is fast getting worse, and that human economic activity is mainly responsible for it. This awareness is leading to ever-increasing...
View ArticleIBON Primer on G-20
IBON together with its partners, Vikas Adhyayan Kendra (VAK), Institute for National and Democratic Studies (INDIES), Africaine de Recherche et de Cooperation pour l'Appui au Developpement Endogene...
View ArticleIBON Primer on the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20)
In 1992, the Earth Summit convened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to address the world's social, economic and environmental crises by bringing sustainable development into the heart of policy-making at...
View ArticleIBON Primer on Food Sovereignty and the Food Crisis
THE IBON PRIMER ON FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND THE FOOD CRISIS reaffirms what people's and peasants' movements and food policy activists all over the world have long insisted: that global hunger has not been...
View ArticleThe Private Sector in Development: Privatization of Development cooperation?
IN THE PAST FEW DECADES, states, civil society, and the corporate world have been obliged to review and rethink the whole range of development issues. As the world stumbled from crisis to crisis, all...
View ArticleIBON Primer on South-South Cooperation
DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE, in the traditional North-South mode, has been based mainly on industrialized nations of the Global North providing aid to developing countries of the Global south to help meet...
View ArticleIBON Primer on the WTO 'Bali Package'
The package of proposals being negotiated towards and post Bali is obviously imbalanced against developing countries. While some developed countries argue that the global trade system needs "some...
View ArticleIBON Primer on 21st Century Free Trade Agreements
New free trade deals across regions such as the Transpacific Partnership Agreement, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, and Trade-in-Services-Agreement, among many others are being...
View ArticleIBON Primer on a New Climate Protocol
On December 2015, officials of states and global agencies will gather anew in Paris for the COP 21 to produce a draft text that will be the basis of a new global climate agreement to replace the...
View ArticlePrimer on the Development Effectiveness of Civil Society Organizations
The primer on the Development Effectiveness of Civil Society Organizations reviews the on-going movement driven by civil society organizations (CSO) to raise concern on the issues of the “aid...
View ArticlePrimer on Climate Change
This primer is being published as a contribution to the urgent need to raise awareness among the people about climate change, the possible consequences for humanity and the urgent need for action.
View ArticlePrimer on the Climate Crisis: Roots and Solutions
This primer traces the roots of the climate crisis as well as other social crises to the dominant economic paradigm and the prevailing socio-economic system in the world today—a system that has proven...
View ArticleIBON Primer on Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs)
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have gained popularity especially since the failure of privatization programs initiated by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and other bi- and...
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