DT 4 / 2009

Norway backs two horses in hydropower race

Norway is supporting the dams industry’s efforts to establish new international hydropower standards, while the EU already has standards, based on the World Commission on Dams, written into law. Norwegian NGOs argue for Norway to drop the industry process and get in line with the EU law.

Opinion April 01, 2009

Sweden top aid performer, Norway falls to third place

News April 01, 2009

GAVI unfreezes payments. Key criticism remains unanswered

Last December, following a critical study published in The Lancet suggesting that GAVI had overpaid countries...

News April 02, 2009

Tørnæs’ blind spot

Denmark has launched a high-level Africa Commission, chaired by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen,...

Opinion Editorial April 01, 2009

Tørnæs taps into IFU, DKK 1.2b into Danish state coffers

Danish Development Minister Ulla Tørnæs often says the private sector has top priority in development...

Business April 01, 2009

IFU attracts new clients

Managing Director of IFU Finn Jønck says his job is to administer the fund within the framework he is...

Business April 01, 2009

Appraisal of Finnish Andean biodiversity programme

Finland plans to support a regional biodiversity programme in the Amazon region of the four Andean members...

Business April 01, 2009

Norfund asks for NOK 1b aid crisis package

The Norwegian aid-financed risk capital fund Norfund has requested an extraordinary NOK 1 billion injection...

Business April 01, 2009

New Nordic Embassy in Kabul proposed

Arne Strand of Chr Michelsens Institute and Peter Bauck of Norad propose in a report on Nordic aid cooperation...

News April 01, 2009

Swedish course on women in peace processes

The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) will finance a course, as part of its...

Business April 01, 2009

Conflicting signals from Norway

Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre participated in a meeting of the Arab League in Qatar this...

News April 01, 2009

Eva Joly keeps pushing World Bank, multinationals

Eva Joly is preparing to return to France, where she will run as Green Party candidate for the EU Parliament....

News April 02, 2009

SEKAB ‘substantially altered’ biofuel study, kept Orgut’s name

SEKAB has made changes in the environmental study of the Bagamoyo biofuel plantation project in Tanzania...

Business April 01, 2009

Tanzanian study calls for biofuel moratorium

Business April 01, 2009

SEKAB: needs new investors, approached Sida for support

The cash-strapped Swedish biofuel company SEKAB AB has in a meeting asked for Sida’s help to rescue...

Business April 01, 2009

Radical simplification of health aid architecture

News April 01, 2009

DT 4 / 2009

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