17 November 2000 : news summary

Inter. Organisations, Agencies & Partnerships

‘Paris Club of sovereign lenders to open up to public’, DevNews, 10/11/00
The creditor nations of the Paris Club have given in to calls for greater transparency as public interest grows in debt cancellation.

‘EU announces major overhaul of development policy’, DevNews, 13/11/00
The EU is to drastically reform its aid policy in an effort to improve efficiency and to ‘forge a European identity on development issues’.

Aid & Debt

‘Donor countries back new Yugoslav government but no fresh aid’, DevNews, 15/11/00
Donors have ruled out the possibility of any immediate new aid for Yugoslavia.

Health

‘UK gives extra £25m to fight Aids‘, G, 10/11/00
UK spending on HIV and Aids in the developing world has increased by almost 45%.

Business, Trade & Development

‘Trade unions ‘help boost productivity", FT, 13/11/00
ILO paper concludes there is "no economic case for suppressing basic worker freedoms".

Environment

Various, 13-16/11/00
Reports from the climate change talks at the Hague.

‘Blair urged to drop support for Turkish dam’, INDoS, 12/11/00
Nelson Mandela joins the calls for Blair to halt support of the Ilisu dam.
Also: ‘Donors may be forced to quit dam project’, DevNews, 15/11/00
A new report by the World Commission on Dams claims that the Ilisu dam in Turkey breaks all seven of the key principles outlined for dam building.
Also: ‘Report attacks value of big dam projects‘, FT, 13/11/00
Better planning could have reduced the high price paid in ‘human hardship and environmental damage’ which have rarely been sufficiently accessed.

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