DT 12 / 2012

Sweden, Norway punish UNDP

The UN Development Program (UNDP) has seen its two best friends, Norway and Sweden, cut funding this fall in an attempt to press the agency to perform better.

News October 30, 2012

Slow return of Icelandic aid

In the wake of the financial meltdown of 2008, Icelandic aid took a big hit. Iceland now has a new aid...

News October 30, 2012

International recognition for Niels Dabelstein

The Dane Niels Dabelstein is a winner of the American Evaluation Association (AEA)’s Outstanding Evaluation...

News October 30, 2012

Guardian of seeds

Former head of the Norwegian Centre Party Åslaug Haga has been appointed Executive Director of the Global...

News October 30, 2012

Warning: A tougher fight on aid additionality

Africa’s middle class is now almost 10 per cent of the population. The Chinese are buying up land in...

Opinion October 30, 2012

Ideology takes backseat in Nordic aid

Nordic political foes have similar aid policies for different reasons, while the approaches of those...

News October 30, 2012

Denmark top spot in CDI index

The donor index of the Washington-based think tank CGD puts Denmark in first place this year. Nordics...

News October 30, 2012

Norconsult continues its legal battle

It has been six years since World Bank investigators visited Norconsult’s headquarters outside Oslo to...

Opinion Editorial October 30, 2012

World Bank decision on Norconsult sanction pending

The top management of Norconsult is keeping its cards close to its chest as a corruption case that has...

Business October 30, 2012

First NDF climate project in Ethiopia

The first project supported by the Nordic Climate Facility (NCF), established in 2009, a project to promote...

Business October 30, 2012

Pöyry’s report on Mekong dam to be investigated

The Finnish ministry of Labour and the Economy will investigate charges that a Pöyry company has violated...

Business October 29, 2012

Evaluation of aid complementarity

The Finnish Foreign Ministry announces a tender for the evaluation of “complementarity in Finland’s development...

Business October 30, 2012

Danish emergency relief roster

The Danish Foreign Ministry plans to launch a tender for the administrative management of the Danish...

Business October 30, 2012

Danes abandon Nordic Africa Institute

For Denmark, the Uppsala-based research institute, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, is...

News October 30, 2012

DT 12 / 2012

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