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Gordon Brown and the MDGs at midpoint
Comment | 7 August 2007 | Tim Braunholtz
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s speech at the UN last week was strongly focussed on renewing global commitments on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is interesting to reflect on this in the light of three recent ODI public events on the MDGs.
...Engaging with Fragile States: Challenges and Opportunities
Comment | 30 July 2007 | Alina Rocha Menocal
This blog reports from a conference hosted by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank in Addis Ababa on 'Engaging with Fragile States: Challenges and Opportunities'.
Read and commentTime to get things done in the water sector? A little less conversation...
Comment | 22 July 2007 | Josephine Tucker
Though talk of the urgency of achieving Millennium Development Goals targets on water supply and sanitation is not new, there was a definite sense of drive to get things done at the last World Water Week in Stockholm (12-18 August 2007)
Globalisation and Global Poverty Policy Group Report
Comment | 20 July 2007 | Simon Maxwell
The Conservative Party’s Globalisation and Global Poverty Policy Group reported today. Without being party political, we are going to use the blog to discuss the analysis and recommendations.
De Rato’s summer to do list
Comment | 14 July 2007 | Lauren Phillips
Rodrigo De Rato decided to step down from his position as Managing Director of the IMF and this blog suggests that in doing so he has given himself greater freedom which could prove the needed impetus to finishing a deal on IMF representation reform.
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