Category: Aid Effectiveness
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G20 Leadership for Post-2015
Note – THP will be represented at the June 2014 C20: the Civil Society Forum of the G20 Summit. THP is an NGO registered in 9 members of the G20. Under Australia’s presidency, the G20 will focus on economic growth and resilience, and the C20 is addressing four key issues. In partnering with women and…
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Easterly: Rights of the Poor are Key
On May 7, 2014 the mighty THP-DC team attended a discussion by the NYU professor and author William Easterly and the World Bank Chief Economist for the MENA region Shanta Devarajan (former colleagues). The topic was Easterly’s new book The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor. Unlike his previous…
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Obama Council issues first report
April 14, 2014 – Washington DC – President Obama’s Global Development Council issued its first report today entitled Beyond Business as Usual at a public meeting in Washington attended by THP. The Council made recommendations in four major areas: Harnessing the Private Sector by creating a Development Finance Bank, strengthening OPIC and taking better advantage of…
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Germany’s New Development Cooperation Policy
On March 7-8, our German National Board Member Jemima Hartshorn and I had the opportunity to attend the annual Eichholz Conference of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (Foundation) – the philanthropic arm of the current ruling party (CDU). The highlight of the Eichholz Conference was a talk (starting the session where I also presented The Hunger Project) by…