A survey by Statistics Norway concludes that nine out of ten Norwegians are positive about giving development assistance to poor countries. This marks an 18 per cent increased from 35 years ago.

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Africa on the Security Council. ‘We want to talk on our own behalf’

Re-organising the UN on the ground will benefit Tanzania, but the biggest issue for Africa in the UN reform discussion is representation on the UN Security Council, says Tanzanian Foreign Minister Bernard Membe in an interview with Development Today.

A relative newcomer on the Swedish NGO scene ActionAid criticises Sida’s policy of channelling aid funds to Southern NGOs via Swedish organisations.

The case for increasing aid to Burma

Separate the strategy for humanitarian assistance to Burma from the sanctions discussion, and consider providing aid through state channels, argues Thant Myint-U, grandson of the former UN Secretary General U Thant.

With Norway’s recent decision to resume political and economic relations with the Palestinian government - the first Western government to do so - Norway simultaneously reclaims its role as a player in the region.

At the Nordic-Africa Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Oslo the countries agreed to establish an informal consultative mechanism to discuss UN-related issues.

A new World Bank report analyses the role of the Bank’s soft loan arm the International Development Association (IDA) in the new global aid architecture. This background document has been prepared for the IDA 15 replenishment negotiations, which could well turn out to be a crossroads for IDA.

Norwegian Development Minister Erik Solheim (Socialist Left) is linking the negotiations concerning the 15th replenishment of IDA, the World Bank’s soft loan arm, to the Bank’s response on conditionality issues raised by the Norwegian government.

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has invited the former magistrate and anti-corruption expert Eva Joly to join a small working group on fighting corruption to be headed by the Nigerian former Finance Minister Ngosi Okonjo-Iweala.