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Getting Behind Global Development Goals
Did you know that in 2000, world leaders adopted the Millennium Declaration? A commitment to a peaceful, prosperous and just world, the declaration included targets for development and poverty...
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Post-2015 framework still misses the meaning of “partnership”
High Level Panel of Experts on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, Bali, Indonesia, meeting around “The Global Partnership” “A partnership of equals.” This was the tag line on a set of banners on the...
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Will the world be transformed in 2015?
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL, 2005. The Paraisópolis favela (Paradise City shanty town) borders the affluent district of Morumbi in São Paulo, Brazil (Photo: Tuca Vieira) I am of two minds about the new report by...
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Electing Women to Combat Child Mortality?
The global development community has long asked what can be done to improve child health globally. Canadian children are fortunate, for the most part, to avoid many of the devastating effects of...
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CIDA-DFAIT merger: development as if poverty mattered?
On Wednesday of this week, Bill C-60 and the legislation governing the merger of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade...
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In 2015 Canada must link disaster reduction with poverty reduction
Looking down from the Calgary Tower less than two weeks after the floods. Just back from a long and much needed vacation, including a trip to Calgary in early July. The holiday was planned long ago,...
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Was last week’s speech thrown?
Ok. The title is a bit forced. But last week’s throne speech was both inspired in tone, but fell short in deliverables, with a policy agenda that will tweak rather than transform. And as we look ahead...
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