DT 17-18 / 2013

Stoltenberg’s Christmas gift to World Bank President Jim Kim

Since resigning as Norway’s Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg has pushed in parliament for an increase in World Bank funding as a way of fulfilling promises his government made to World Bank President Jim Yong Kim.

News December 23, 2013

New forms of donor control

Donors have massively increased their funding to civil society organisations (CSOs) working to combat...

Opinion December 23, 2013

Africa: profitable, fastest growing market for IFC

The World Bank’s commercial investments in Sub-Saharan Africa have increased ten-fold in the last decade....

Business December 23, 2013

Tore Godal and the princess

Tore Godal has been called the Norwegian who has saved most lives after Fritjof Nansen. He reflected...

News December 23, 2013

Uganda corruption fall-out. Nordics return to business as usual, not so for UK, Ireland

Donors formed a united front when faced with corruption in the Prime Minister’s Office in Kampala. Now...

News December 23, 2013

Global Fund falls short of USD 15b target

At a meeting in Washington in early December, donors pledged USD 12 billion to the Global Fund for the...

News December 23, 2013

Danish Refugee Council, Diakonia dropped from Sida humanitarian group

Both NGOs have been among the largest recipients of Sida’s humanitarian NGO funding, but they did not...

News December 23, 2013

Liisa Kauppinen receives UN Human Rights Prize

The Finnish advocate of the rights of the deaf and of women with disabilities received the prestigious...

News December 23, 2013

UN Syria appeal exceeds this year’s record

The UN has launched its largest ever appeal for 2014, seeking USD 6.5 billion for humanitarian aid to...

News December 23, 2013

Danish ministry considers legal sanctions against staff

The Danish Foreign Ministry is questioning three officials about their handling of information in a case...

News December 23, 2013

A tale of two refugee councils

The Norwegian Refugee Council cements its relationship with Sida, while the Danish counterpart fails...

News December 23, 2013

Stoltenberg’s World Bank move

In a discreet move ex-PM Jens Stoltenberg has cleaned up a messy relationship with the World Bank created...

Opinion Editorial December 23, 2013

Reykjavik to vote over new aid cuts

A new government that is more sceptical about aid took office in late May after an election paved the...

News December 23, 2013

SN Power is one of World Bank’s top three commercial partners globally

Norway’s partly aid-funded hydropower utility SN Power is one of the World Bank’s top three commercial...

Business December 23, 2013

Iraq oil for food scam. Prosecutor demands 3 years

A public prosecutor has called for two officials at the Swedish truck manufacturer Scania to be sentenced...

Business December 18, 2013

Oil for development: Norad to assist Burma

A recent seminar in Burma marked the start of formal cooperation between the Norwegian Oil for Development...

Business December 23, 2013

Support to indigenous people in Guatemala

Sida is entering the third phase of a programme aimed at supporting the rights of the Oxlajuj Tz’ikin...

Business December 23, 2013

Climate-resilient road Mozambique

A road being financed by the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Mozambique will be made more climate...

Business December 23, 2013

Mid-term review of Kenya project

A mid-term review of the Finnish-financed Programme for Agriculture and Livelihoods for Western Communities...

Business December 23, 2013

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