DT 17 / 2005

No ‘European model’ in post-Taliban aid to Afghanistan

The United States and the World Bank set the terms for post-Taliban aid to Afghanistan and five European donors simply followed along. There was no “European model" for the world’s first post-9/11 humanitarian operation.

News November 04, 2005

Pakistan emergency reflects low donor confidence in UN appeal

The international reaction to the earthquake emergency in Pakistan reflects a lack of donor confidence...

News November 04, 2005

Kjell Magne Bondevik: ‘It’s important to work with the World Bank’

Provided the aid budget frame for next year is approved, nominal growth in Norwegian aid since 2001 will...

News November 04, 2005

Keeping Presidents waiting

The President of Mali Amadou Toumani Touré and the President of Niger Mamadou Tandja did not get a chance...

News November 04, 2005

Danida joins forces with Danish pension funds

Danida has decided to spend DKK 47 million in aid funds over the next five years to attract DKK 470 million...

News November 04, 2005

Finland aims to increase budget support

Finland is looking to increase the proportion of its aid given for budget support in recipient countries...

News November 04, 2005

Environmental constraints hamper Pangani’s production

A post-evaluation of the Nordic aid-financed Pangani Falls Hydropower Project, which was completed a...

Business November 04, 2005

Nordics fund US aid priorities

Nordic donors poured aid into Afghanistan. But according to a new evaluation, Sweden, Denmark and three other key European donors have followed a US-World Bank prescription for a “functional and lean state" in Afghanistan.

Opinion Editorial November 04, 2005

Extended environmental support to South Africa

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland is making a final extension of an environmental support programme...

Business November 04, 2005

How Norway avoided the oil-for-food trap

Norway chaired the UN Committee on Sanctions Against Iraq for 2001-2002, a critical period for the oil-for-food...

Business November 04, 2005

Swedish, Danish firms identified. Aid agencies uncertain how to treat companies

The oil-for-food investigation in Iraq has revealed widespread corruption. Millions of dollars have been...

Business November 04, 2005

Swedish police investigate missing SEK 20m in Sida funds

Up to SEK 20 million, paid out by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), to...

Business November 04, 2005

Iraqi dividends. New market opens for Danish suppliers

Danish participation in the US-led military operation in Iraq in 2003 and DKK 600 million in promised...

Business November 04, 2005

Danish PSD programme’s ‘McDonald’s approach’ under fire

An internal Foreign Ministry review likens the Danish Private Sector Development (PSD) programme to a “McDonald’s" concept, which applies the same conditions in all countries irrespective of local conditions.

Business November 04, 2005

A polite meeting in Stockholm

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz praised the Nordic commitment to aid at a meeting in Stockholm recently...

News November 04, 2005

Finns, Italians and Dutch first to benefit from CDM projects

Finland has purchased carbon credits to be used towards meeting Finnish Kyoto climate targets from a...

Business November 04, 2005

The politics of humanitarian independence

If money were unlimited there would be no need to set priorities. But in the real world, governments...

Opinion November 04, 2005

DT 17 / 2005

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