In this blog, Simon Maxwell reviews Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araujothe’s book, 'China’s Silent Army: The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing's Image'.
China’s ever-growing dominance is often in the news – and not always in a good way – and the arguments prevalent in the media arebrought together and fleshed out in this book.
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From the rise of China and Brazil to game changing models of global philanthropy, person-to-person giving and social impact investment, the community of actors engaged in development cooperation is evolving. While the geography of poverty is changing so too are the tools available for targeting assistance. The 2012 CAPE Conference will explore how fundamental global shifts will shape the future of development cooperation.
At the European Development Days 2012 this High Level Panel, facilitated by the European Think Tanks Group, brought together a leading group of thinkers and policy-makers for a candid debate on how European development policy could respond to the growing inequality problem. ODI Senior Research Associate Simon Maxwell moderated the debate.
Read the Panel Report, available on the European Think Tanks Group's website.
The text of the 2012 Food Assistance Convention (FAC) was posted on the United Nations Treaty website on 25 April 2012 and open to signature from 11 June. This treaty is the intended successor to the 1999 Food Aid Convention, the only international legal agreement requiring signatories to provide a minimum amount of food aid.
Back at the first Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the civil society organisations in attendance counted an unusual group among their number. Amid the assorted staffers and activists from environmental and development NGOs, there was a handful of campaigners who had a very different relationship with the Earth: representatives of an astronauts' organisation. Their reason for being there? Having seen the planet from space, they'd learned to view it from a different angle.
