by adminrise | Oct 20, 2020 | Development actors
As they mark their 76th year, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have been presented with a grand opportunity, not to save the world, but to salvage their tattered reputation. The Fund enters the annual IMF-World Bank meetings with a big image problem....
by adminrise | Oct 20, 2020 | Development actors
Polluters profiting from pandemic bailouts Under the guise of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has seen fossil fuel interests capture tens of billions of public recovery money, new research by the Fossil Free Politics campaign reveals a massive lobbying effort by the...
by adminrise | Oct 14, 2020 | Development actors
Nearly three years after announcing $1.5-billion in new financing programs for foreign aid, Ottawa has disbursed only a tiny fraction of the promised money: just $120,000 so far. The Trudeau government won praise from aid agencies in February, 2018, when it announced...
by adminrise | Oct 14, 2020 | Development actors
The COVID-19 pandemic was predicted and preventable. The next pandemics are equally predictable and preventable. Around 60% of human infectious diseases and 75% of emerging infectious diseases originate in animals as zoonotic diseases. The novel coronavirus is just...
by adminrise | Oct 14, 2020 | Development issues
COVID-19 is just one example of the rising trend of diseases – from Ebola to MERS to West Nile and Rift Valley fevers – caused by viruses that have jumped from animal hosts into the human population. A new assessment offers ten recommendations, and identifies One...
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