Full Coverage: Finance

02.11.2009 Climate change and food security negotiations are stumbling over the reluctance of rich countries to stump up the costs. They have thrown all their resources at a bunch of bankrupt banks.

05.10.2009 The International Monetary Fund should withdraw its plan for a multi-million-dollar loan to Angola unless there are "stringent conditions" that require the opening up of the country's oil industry to public scrutiny, an anti-corruption watchdog said ahead of the IMF's annual meeting in Turkey.

14.09.2009 Big polluting companies in US and Europe are threatening to relocate if the terms of carbon trading schemes meet their disapproval. This is the unacceptable face of corporate blackmail.

07.09.2009 Owen Barder takes a close look at the idea of a currency transaction tax. Lord Turner's resurrection of the proposal has stirred up a hornet's nest in the City of London. Owen Abroad

06.07.2009 The new sliding roof over the Wimbledon Centre Court represents an extreme and expensive example of adapting to climate uncertainties. Low cost index insurance is a valuable tool for poor farmers but can it work if climate becomes even less predictable?

27.04.2009 Governments are responding to public disgust at financial greed by increasing taxes for high earners. But it's a reminder that becoming a little less rich does not address extreme global inequalities.

30.03.2009 The G20 London summit is unrepresentative of the poorest countries who will be most affected by decisions about the world economy. Here's a selection of what African leaders have to say.

29.03.2009 A tough-talking but constructive assessment of the economic crisis facing Africa. Speech by the president of Tanzania at the IMF-Africa High Level meeting in Dar es Salaam. allAfrica.com

23.03.2009 Anger is brewing amongst African governments as their economies are undermined by a crisis for which they are not responsible. They lack the monetary tools available to countries attending the G20 London Summit.

22.03.2009 A new site which aggregates civil society opinion about the global financial crisis, based on the premise that the political response so far is wholly inadequate. from Bretton Woods Project

14.03.2009 I don't normally look to religious leaders for enlightenment but the Archbishop of Canterbury makes a good fist of interpreting our economic ruins.

09.03.2009 Our sense of values continues to rotate in the spin-dryer. On the same day that Gandhi's spectacles sell for millions, the Bank of England decides that money is worthless.

08.03.2009 If any lesson is to come out of the current financial crisis, it is that the pipedream of corporate social responsibility needs to be shelved, argues Marcin Bondarowicz.

04.03.2009 The global financial crisis is hitting poor countries hard, including those in sub-Saharan Africa, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund warned as he called for quick and generous action to avoid the potentially devastating effects of this crisis on the most vulnerable countries.

16.02.2009 As the nationalisation of major banks looks increasingly likely, the World Social Forum is promoting a "new economic and social model". It's always informative to revisit Cuba when assessing the strengths and weaknesses of socialist ideals.

15.02.2009 Christopher Caldwell suggests that it's time to move on from hangups over bankers' bonuses. We should have made a fuss a long time ago. Financial Times

01.02.2009 George Soros made his fortune a while ago by short selling the pound. Now in the Financial Times he blames the banking catastrophe on.......short selling. (only for those who can cope with the language of collateralised debt obligations).

02.05.2008 South Asian Fund Raising Group (SAFRG), a Delhi based trust, is organising its 19th International South Asian Fundraising Workshop from August 23-26, 2008 in Agra, India. The workshop aims to build the capacity of the voluntary sector through training, knowledge sharing and networking activities in the area of resource mobilisation.

28.03.2008 Zambia has been forced to reallocate resources intended for poverty alleviation to pay a "vulture fund," a company that scammed the impoverished nation to make millions off its cancellation of a 1999 debt, writes an organization promoting African development.

14.03.2008 HARARE, Mar 14 (OneWorld) - Members of once esteemed professions in Zimbabwe -- teachers, nurses, and doctors -- have gone on strike over the paltry purchasing power of their wages.