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| 26 January 2006
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The University College of Maastricht presents a conference about the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals. Aim of this conference is to come up with specific solutions that will give the realization of the goals in six developing countries more hope.
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| 31 October 2005
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Did you publish an article on human rights and democracy in the developing world, between January 1, 2004 and August 31, 2005? Submit your article to the jury of the Lorenzo Natali Prize for Journalism before October 31.
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Review of the book 'The Profit of Peace: Corporate Responsibility in Conflict Regions' by Karolien Bais and Mijnd Huijser, Greenleaf Publishing, Sheffield (UK): 2005.
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| 08 September 2005
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Good governance has become the central guiding principle for developmental aid. Efforts to implement good governance often result in resistance. African Studies Centre presents fieldwork conducted in Malawi, focussing on mundane tactics of resistance and subversion.
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| 28 September 2005
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The SNV is organizing an International Conference to help NGOs and governments achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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NGOs in Afghanistan need to assess which new skills and tools they need to contribute effectively to the reconstruction of their country.
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 Urban consumers need to be more concerned about where their food is coming from and how it is produced, and become more aware of the social and environmental costs of large-scale agriculture.
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| 17 May 2004
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Lecture in the series Migration and Development on the implications of migration for health development and health care systems. By Manuel Carballo, director of the International Centre for Migration and Health (ICMH).
17 May 2004, 18:00-19:30, Auditorium, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1105, Entrance free. For more information, call 010-4367891 or mail buro.op.orde@luna.nl.
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 Last year, African leaders presented a vision of Africa's future coined the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD). One of NEPAD's principle targets is to halve the number of Africans living in poverty by 2015. How feasible is this target, and what can Europe do to help achieve it?
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 In this paper, I take issue with the World Bank's assessment of the relation between poverty and ethnicity in Latin America. I set out from a review of the poverty studies used by the Bank to identify the specific needs of indigenous peoples. I demonstrate that the studies unduly dismissed better access to land as a means to reduce poverty among indigenous communities. In so doing, I argue, the studies not only defied the needs identified by these communities themselves but also the Bank's own indigenous peoples policy. I conclude by suggesting that the studies may be seen to have set a precedent for the focus of the Bank's first designated "ethnodevelopment" projects. Since none of these projects promotes a more equitable distribution of land, I contend that, for all its intents and purposes, the Bank's ethnodevelopment policy does not live up to its core premise.
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