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World Leaders Call for Increased Commitment of Resources by International Community to Combat Poverty

AScribe Newswire | February 22, 2002 At a high-level forum at The Carter Center, leaders and representatives of developing countries and international development organizations called attention to the lack of progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals to reduce poverty.

Third World Finance Dries Up

The Observer | By Nick Mathiason | February 24, 2002 Investment in the infrastructure of developing countries has collapsed in the past seven years, threatening the lives of millions of people in the world's poorest countries, writes Nick Mathiason.

Is World Bank Starting to Understand Growth?

The Straits Times | February 12, 2002 | Analysis By DANI RODRIK [professor of political economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University]

President Bush to Participate in Monterrey Conference on Financing for Development

For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary January 30, 2002 Statement by the White House Press Secretary The President will travel to Monterrey, Mexico to participate in the International Conference on Financing for Development on March 22 and to meet with President Fox.

French Prime Minister Calls for Commission to Study Debt Relief for Strapped Countries

Associated Press | January 30, 2002 French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin on Wednesday called for the creation of an international commission on debt relief to help countries that have borrowed beyond their means.

President Will Travel to Monterrey, Mexico for FfD

Office of the Press Secretary | For Immediate Release, January 30, 2002 Statement by the White House Press Secretary The President will travel to Monterrey, Mexico to participate in the International Conference on Financing for Development on March 22 and to meet with President Fox.

Monterrey Consensus on Development Finance Agreed

Press Release | January 29, 2002 New York - After two weeks of intensive negotiating, countries reached agreement on a wide range of issues that puts development at the centre of global financial reforms and paves the way for the International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD) in Monterrey, Mexico on 18 - 22 March 2002.

Monitoring Is the Key to the Success of a UN Convention against Corruption

Transparency International (TI) | press statement | January 18, 2002 "Transparency International welcomes the lead of Austria and the Netherlands in their proposal that the implementation of the Convention be formally monitored." - Peter Eigen, Transparency International

Agriculture-Peru: Protectionist Measures Sought by Farmers

Inter Press Service | January 14, 2002 | By Abraham Lama LIMA - Peruvian farmers and agricultural experts are demanding credit and protectionist measures from the government to help the impoverished rural population, most of whom still work the fields using tools whose design dates to the pre-Hispanic era.

Blame the IMF Crowd: The One-Size-Fits-All Globalization Model Just Didn""t Work

Los Angeles Times | December 30, 2001 | by Marc Cooper A businessman trafficking in women in the red-light district of Buenos Aires refers to his most sought-after prostitute as la mina--the gold mine that produces his wealth. That's precisely the unfortunate role Argentina played in world markets over the last decade--it has been a gold mine for overseas investors.