DT 10-11 / 2005

Norway and Hernando de Soto. Bankrolling the presidents’ man

It all started in 2001, when the Norwegian firm Norway Registers Development (NRD) invited Hernando de Soto to speak at the Euro Register seminar in Vilnius, Lithuania. NRD, a consultancy active in the aid market, specialised in designing and establishing institutions to support legally-based property rights systems in developing countries and Eastern Europe and had been in existence since 1995.

News July 18, 2005

MSF: donors positive about ‘de-restricting’ tsunami funds

Six months after the tsunami, the humanitarian medical organisation Médicins Sans Frontières (MSF)...

News July 18, 2005

Three Danish NGO staff forced to leave Kenya

The Kenyan government’s refusal to extend the work permits of three Danish NGO staff will end up costing...

News July 18, 2005

Sweden steps up budget support to Mozambique

The Swedish government has decided to increases its budget support to Mozambique by more than 40 per...

News July 18, 2005

Difficult for Sweden to report ODA level of 1.0 per cent GNI next year

The Swedish government has confirmed an earlier pledge to provide SEK 6.15 billion to the World Bank’s...

News July 18, 2005

Finnish Ministry ignores Auditor’s warning against budget support

The Finnish Auditor General slams the government’s plans to step up budget support to Mozambique and give such assistance to Zambia in 2007. The risk for of “misappropriation of fund is great", states the Auditor. Still, the Finnish Foreign Ministry is determined to increase budget support.

News July 18, 2005

Norwegian committee to review role of NGOs

The OECD country that spends the largest proportion of its aid budget on NGOs, Norway, has established...

News July 18, 2005

Finnish NGOs agree on common reporting model

Finland’s largest development NGOs have approved a common framework to be used to declare how and where...

News July 18, 2005

Danish aid consultancy market stabilises at DKK 620 million

Following major reductions in Danida’s volume of spending on aid consultancy contracts between 2001...

Business July 18, 2005

Brave step to save lives

Médicins Sans Frontières (MSF) has asked its donors for permission to spend the lion’s share of the...

Opinion Editorial July 18, 2005

Firms turn down Sida guarantee due to slow decision-making process

An evaluation of Sida’s guarantee scheme shows a mixed picture. MTN Uganda is hailed as a success,...

Business July 18, 2005

Phase 2 of environment management in Laos

The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) announces a tender for consultancy services...

Business July 18, 2005

A view from Aceh, six months after

Six months after the tsunami, the questions on everyone’s mind are: How much longer will it be before...

Opinion July 18, 2005

Rezidor SAS signs JV with Nordic investment funds

Rezidor SAS Hospitality has signed a EUR 35 million financial joint venture agreement with four Nordic...

Business July 18, 2005

Stockholm based GuarantCo competes with Sida guarantees

The Stockholm based GuarantCo competes with the guarantee scheme of the Swedish International Development...

Business July 18, 2005

Nordics to hoist national flags at UN Summit

As Nordic donors go into the final weeks leading up to the UN Summit in September, the discourse is all...

News July 18, 2005

DT 10-11 / 2005

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