DT 3-4 / 2012

Norway failed to secure Nordic majority for Africa’s candidate for World Bank top job

Many spoke favourably of the eminent qualifications of Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to lead the World Bank. Norway tried to mobilise support for her. In the end, the Nordic-Baltic vote went to the American.

News May 09, 2012

Norway shies away from the big forest prize

Few forest activists could dream of influencing government policy as profoundly as Lars Løvold has done....

News May 09, 2012

Swedish investor drops ethanol, opts for sugar production in Tanzania

Per Carstedt, former CEO of the biofuel company SEKAB, is courting the African Development Bank and Sida...

Business May 09, 2012

How to fight corruption in aid

Sweden’s Minister for Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson has repeatedly said that corruption in...

Opinion May 08, 2012

Budget support to Mozambique for 2012 could be Sweden’s last payment

Minister Gunilla Carlsson wants to scrap budget support. Sida is looking for ways to make this form of...

News May 09, 2012

Denmark makes rights a key value in aid

In a new draft aid strategy, Danish Development Minister Christian Friis Bach makes human rights the...

News May 08, 2012

Forestry aid portfolio under scrutiny

Finnish forestry aid, which accounted for EUR 35 million in disbursements last year, is under scrutiny...

News May 08, 2012

OECD’s views on budget support

Budget support has grown in popularity among donors in recent years.

News May 09, 2012

Culture of the brown envelope

Researchers at cmi, Christian Michelsens Institute in Bergen, have published a study of the phenomenon...

News May 09, 2012

The best way to evaluate development

The swedish aid minister Gunilla Carlsson is making use of the services of Statskontoret, the Swedish...

News May 09, 2012

Human rights at centre of Nordic aid

Three nordic countries are putting human rights at the centre of their development policies, the most...

Opinion Editorial May 08, 2012

Seeks Norad funds for dams standard

The aid agency Norad, which was the main donor for a project to develop a new international standard...

Business May 08, 2012

Finland files charges against three in Costa Rican aid scam

A Finnish prosecutor has filed charges against three former employees of a Finnish firm for bribing Costa...

Business May 09, 2012

Danish-Arab partnership evaluation

The danish foreign ministry announces a tender for evaluation of media support provided as part of the...

Business May 08, 2012

EcoEnergy: ‘equity for land’

On its newly-launched web site, ecoenergy.co.tz, EcoEnergy responds to the charge that the Bagamoyo sugar...

Business May 09, 2012

Swedish road contract in Liberia

The swedish government has decided to extend its Liberian-Swedish Feeder Road Project for a second phase...

Business May 08, 2012

What Norway wants in Ethiopia

Funding for two mega-dams in Ethiopia has hung in limbo for more than year. In the meantime, Norwegian...

News May 08, 2012

DT 3-4 / 2012

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