Full Coverage: Development

26.09.2007 While the 53rd Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, which began in New Delhi on Tuesday, focused on democracy and sustainable development, India sought to draw the attention of delegates to terrorism with President Pratibha Patil taking the lead.

26.09.2007 Nine African countries have won the first ever awards given for promoting the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by governments in fulfilling their public service delivery functions, the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) has announced.

25.09.2007 World Bank give some options for reducing GHG emissions from energy sector.Is whether the advice was arisen based solely on the reality of energy mix policy in Indonesia?

22.09.2007 For the first time in history, activists, academicians, policy analysts and project affected communities congregated at the Jawarharlal Nehru University in New Delhi on the 21st of September 2007, to conduct a four day comprehensive analysis of the World Bank and its impact on people in India.

21.09.2007 Initiated by the Africa Interactive Media Foundation, the Voices of Africa project was launched in late May 2007 and is now in the preparatory phase. Reporters are now working on it in four countries.

21.09.2007 Mainstreet Technologies threw its hat in the ring this week to be the first to complete an African west coast fibre project to compete with SAT3. The cable will connect 12 countries, some already connected to SAT3, others not. Russell Southwood spoke to the project’s CEO Funke Opeke and discovered how it intends to win the race to complete.

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19.09.2007 Expansion of aquaculture industries in various countries has been encouraged by the financial assistance provided by international donor agencies such as the World Bank, ADB, IDB. Walhi call the International Financial Institutions stop the promotion and funding of industrial shrimp aquaculture.

18.09.2007 WASHINGTON, Sep 17 (IPS) - U.S. immigrant groups are ratcheting up a boycott of Western Union Co. in hopes of forcing the global money-transfer industry to do good for its customers' families, not just do well for itself.

16.09.2007 The botted water industry is global in nature. But it is designed to sell the same product to two completely different markets: one water rich and the other water scarce. The question is whether this industry will have different outcomes in these two worlds. Or will we, for two opposite reasons, agree that their business costs us the earth and that it is not good for us?

16.09.2007 RAIPUR, Chattisgarh State, Sep 17 (IPS) - Like other women in this largely tribal, central Indian state, Draupati Bhosale was averse to the idea of having toilets built within homes, but went along because the government was building them at heavily subsidised costs. ‘’I thought it would give me extra storage space,’’ she said.

15.09.2007 Over 50 organisations and movements from all over India will meet in the capital on 21 September 2007, to conduct an Independent People's Tribunal on the World Bank in India.

14.09.2007 With informal workers constituting more than 92 per cent of the Indian workforce, the NCEUS report highlights that the present government must work to fulfil its promises, under the Common Minimum Program, to ensure decent conditions of work, minimum wages, and promotion employment and enterprise in the unorganised sector.

11.09.2007 African Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) may be spoiling for war with the global software giant, Microsoft Corporation, over its bid to have its DIS 29500 'Office Open Extensible Markup Language (OOXML)' endorsed by the International Standard Organisation (ISO).

05.09.2007 SYDNEY, Sep 5 (IPS) - As 21 world leaders representing 3 billion people prepare to meet at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit this weekend, civil society groups are calling for an instant end to poverty and the war in Iraq and immediate action on climate change.