DT 15-16 / 2008

Budget 2009: Norway plays down UN, Africa

In the buget proposition for next year, the Norwegian government reaches an aid level 1 per cent of GNI....

News October 22, 2008

Uncertainty about Iceland aid as currency collapses

Iceland, which aims to become an ambitious aid donor in relative terms, is considering seeking assistance...

News October 22, 2008

No conditionality. Minister refuses to link forest aid to forest people’s rights

Forestry experts worry that Norwegian forest carbon aid can undermine the rights of already marginalised...

News October 22, 2008

Väyrynen tours Mozambique, Namibia

Finnish Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Paavo Väyrynen recently toured Mozambique and Namibia...

News October 22, 2008

Sida struggles to explain huge entertainment budget

Sida is accused of having a much larger staff entertainment budget than other Swedish government authorities....

News October 22, 2008

Denmark to make aid fraud cases public in real time

Business October 22, 2008

Reforming mixed credits

Sweden has created a new, reformed mixed credit scheme for the private sector. Funding is to be flexible,...

Opinion Editorial October 22, 2008

Norwegian firms suspect World Bank of using secret blacklist

The World Bank has pulled out of a small hydropower project, Bugoye in Uganda, claiming the participation of two Norwegian firms poses “an unacceptable level of reputational risk to the World Bank Group". No Norwegian firms appear on the World Bank’s official blacklist of companies involved in corruption.

Business October 22, 2008

Norway closes down untied mixed credit scheme

Development and Environment Minister Erik Solheim is closing down Norway’s untied mixed credit scheme...

Business October 22, 2008