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Prospects daily: U.S. retail sales dissapoint in May
Posted on 14. Jul, 2010 by Global Macroeconomic Team.
Important developments today: 1. U.S. retail spending continues decline into June 2. U.S. business inventories record modest increase in May 3. European industrial output advances weaker than anticipated in May U.S. reta...
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Creating a Platform For Media Dialogue
Posted on 14. Jul, 2010 by Anne-Katrin Arnold.
An announcement from our colleagues at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) launched a new publication series on media issues in Africa fesmedia Africa, the media project of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) on the Afri...
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Civil Society and the State: Opponents or Partners?
Posted on 14. Jul, 2010 by Sabina Panth.
When the globalization agenda pushed for democratic reform and decentralized system of governance in the early nineties, aid agencies began investing in civil society organizations to demand and deliver development services that the centralized state w...
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Civil Society and the State: Opponents or Partners?
Posted on 14. Jul, 2010 by Sabina Panth.
When the globalization agenda pushed for democratic reform and decentralized system of governance in the early nineties, aid agencies began investing in civil society organizations to demand and deliver development services that the centralized state w...
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Information is Power: CSOs Play Unprecedented Role in Shaping Bank’s Access to Information Policy
Posted on 13. Jul, 2010 by John Garrison.
The Banks’ new Access to Information policy, which became effective on July 1, is ground breaking in several respects. First, it represents a paradigm shift to a ‘presumption of disclosure’ in which the great majority of Bank do...
