DT 19-20 / 2013

New team of Nordic ministers

Within the space of two short months in the fall four new faces took charge of the Nordic aid portfolio. Only one of them resulted from a change of government.

News January 09, 2014

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Norway’s oil fund expands in Africa

Norway holds the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund built up on oil revenues. The giant investor could...

News January 09, 2014

Another forest billion to Brazil for 2013

Norway has kept to the schedule of its bilateral forest climate deal with Brazil, transferring NOK 1...

News January 09, 2014

Sida aims to increase subsidies for companies involved in aid

Aid cooperation with companies should be as natural as it is with governments or NGOs. Sida is looking...

Business January 09, 2014

MSF Norway: Time for a global needs index

Though Norway is the most generous humanitarian donor per capita, the Foreign Ministry has no systematic...

Opinion January 09, 2014

Finland tones down criticism of Ethiopian mass resettlement scheme

Finland has been monitoring the controversial Ethiopian resettlement programme – “villagisation” – for...

News January 09, 2014

Petition on villagisation to African commission on human rights

Survival International, the indigenous peoples’ rights advocacy organisation, has submitted a petition...

News January 09, 2014

Sweden terminates aid cooperation with seven countries

Sweden strips down the number of its partner countries, terminating aid cooperation with South Africa,...

News January 09, 2014

Softening rules on aid subsidies to firms

In practice, the EU’s ban on state subsidies to companies has been an effective measure for curbing tied...

Opinion Editorial January 09, 2014

MS poll: Danes want aid to be focused on the poor

MS ActionAid Denmark challenges the business focus of Danish aid with a new opinion poll showing that...

News January 09, 2014

Promises to invest more oil money in poor countries

Norway’s new blue-blue government has pledged to establish a programme within the Norwegian Oil Fund...

News January 09, 2014

Upswing in procurement by Danida in 2013

Several large consultancy contracts contributed to a marked upswing in Danida procurement during 2013....

Business January 09, 2014

IFC has invested USD 1.4b with Nordic partners

The World Bank’s private sector arm IFC has a portfolio of USD 1.4 billion invested with Nordic companies...

Business January 09, 2014

10 winners of energy innovation contest

The winners of the Ideas 2013 Energy Innovation Contest, an initiative to improve energy efficiency and...

Business January 09, 2014

Meteorology in Mozambique

The Nordic Development Fund (NDF) is teaming up with the World Bank to strengthen meteorological capacity...

Business January 09, 2014

High cost of the IDA 17 funding pledge

World Bank President Jim Kim welcomes the donors’ USD 52 billion pledge for IDA 17 as a breakthrough....

News January 09, 2014

DT 19-20 / 2013

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