News Archive
- IPC One Pager - Eliminating Gender Inequalities Reduces Poverty. How?
- Released: 2 Dec 2008
- There are many ways in which gender inequalities are present in society. Those inequalities, like any other, are intrinsically unfair and should be fought against.
- Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development
- Released: 1 Dec 2008
- The meeting, which opened in Doha on 29 November and concludes Tuesday, 2 December, features high-level government officials and leaders of international agencies reviewing progress achieved under the 2002 Monterrey Consensus on development and funding issues.
- Financial crisis highlights need for adequate national policy space
- Released: 2 Dec 2008
- The need for a better balance between international economic governance instruments and national policy autonomy in all countries was addressed at a side event at the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus.
- From Doha to Poznan: Linking solutions to financial, climate and poverty crises
- Released: 3 Dec 2008
- Focus on new technologies, green jobs and carbon markets can help tackle the ‘triple crisis’
- Food prices still causing problems for importers, committee hears
- Released: 4 Dec 2008
- Agricultural prices remain high despite recent falls and these are likely to continue to pose nutritional and broader economic problems for poorer importing countries, a meeting of the regular Agriculture Committee heard on 4 December 2008.
- World Bank and Commonwealth Secretariat Focus on Boys at Risk in the Caribbean
- Released: 4 Dec 2008
- The World Bank and the Commonwealth Secretariat launched today a regional contest to identify, recognize and promote initiatives that have demonstrated success in engaging youth-at-risk in the Caribbean.
- Youth Employment – Key to Conflict Prevention, Poverty Reduction
- Released: 4 Dec 2008
- WASHINGTON, December 4, 2008 - Governments seek and often win power on campaign promises to create jobs and expand employment programs, especially those benefiting youth. Yet, the promise of jobs is more easily made than honored. Dire consequences have followed this failure of promises with youth taking up employment in the industries of crime and armed conflict.
- For Better Results in Infrastructure, Listen to Men and Women
- Released: 4 Dec 2008
- Mainstreaming Gender Equality in Infrastructure Projects: Asia and Pacific Regional Meeting, Nov. 10-11, 2008, Manila
- WB calls for Africa to take steps for youth employment
- Released: 5 Dec 2008
- “The World Bank has urged African countries to adopt a series of measures to address the challenge of youth employment. According to the African Development Indicators 2008/09 report (ADI) published Thursday…
- Lamy welcomes revised agriculture and NAMA texts, considers next steps
- Released: 6 Dec 2008
- Director-General Pascal Lamy today welcomed revised negotiating documents on agriculture and industrial goods which, he said, should move the Doha round of global trade negotiations closer to completion. He praised Agriculture Negotiating Group Chair Crawford Falconer and Non-Agricultural Market Access Committee Chair Luzius Wasescha for their contribution in advancing the Doha round. These texts are the fourth revisions of negotiating documents first submitted to members in July 2007.
- New civil society partnership launched in Latin America
- Released: 9 Dec 2008
- A new partnership launched today (9 December) will improve the way that governments, civil society and individuals work together to tackle poverty in Latin America.
- Growth Centre to help poor countries build stronger economies
- Released: 10 Dec 2008
- The current "once in a century credit tsunami" threatens to force as many as 80 million more people into extreme poverty – more than double what was previously feared.
- ILO Director-General calls on G20 to address the social implications of the global economic crisis
- Released: 10 Dec 2008
- Speaking in the Vatican on the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Director-General of the International Labour Office Juan Somavia called on leaders of the G20 "to address the social implications of the financial crisis."
- General Assembly marks 60 years of Universal Human Rights Declaration
- Released: 10 Dec 2008
- BY ADOPTING ITS OWN, PLEDGING TO ENHANCE DIALOGUE AMONG PEOPLES
Adoption of Optional Protocol to International Covenant On Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Caps Year-Long Worldwide Celebration
- Coordinated Action Urgently Needed for Asia-Pacific Region to Deal with Food, Energy and Financial Crises and Climate Change
- Released: 10 Dec 2008
- Asia and the Pacific need urgent, comprehensive and coordinated action to deal with the food, energy and financial crises, and climate change – as the convergence of the crises will undermine the region’s development gains and its future prospects.
- Spain to Contribute 50 Million Euro to New Gender Equality Fund
- Released: 15 Dec 2008
- Fund to support women’s economic and political empowerment. Agreement signed today.
- DFID/BERR statement on the Doha Development Agenda
- Released: 17 Dec 2008
- Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Pascal Lamy, set out today that he could not currently call Ministers to Geneva to agree an outline deal (modalities) on agriculture and industrial goods.
- World Bank Approves a Grant of US$190 Million for An Urban Water Supply Project in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Released: 18 Dec 2008
- The Board of Directors of the World Bank today approved a US$190 million IDA grant for an urban water supply project in urban areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Urban Water Supply Project (Projet d’Alimentation en Eau Potable en Milieu Urbain (PEMU)) seeks to sustainably increase access to potable water in selected urban areas and improve the effectiveness of REGIDESO, the national water utility.
- WTO to move quickly on wider front in 2009 — Lamy
- Released: 18 Dec 2008
- Director-General Pascal Lamy told the Trade Negotiations Committee on 17 December 2008 that “concluding the Round should remain our focus in 2009 but this endeavour takes place within a more global portfolio of WTO activities”.
- Loan to Expand Successful Water Security Initiatives in Brazil’s Semi-Arid Region
- Released: 19 Dec 2008
- The World Bank approved yesterday a US$103 million additional finance loan for the Ceará Integrated Water Resource Management Project (Progerirh). The loan will allow the semi-arid northeastern Brazilian state of Ceará to continue improving the management of water resources and to expand rural and urban access to drinking water, even during periods of drought.
