“In country after country in the world where they’ve started to try and develop their natural resources… the capacity of those countries was not up to par with the capacity of the of the companies that are negotiating these contracts… if there was one thing that I...
ESC Seminar. The UN Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development_ 22 Feb 2016
On the 10th of November I convened a seminar at St. Antony's College, Oxford, UK with the above title. Fernando Frutuoso de Melo, Director General for International Cooperation and Development, European Commission presented the following speech. Dear Professors,...
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ESC Seminar: Is European Union development policy still relevant? Why and what for? Fernando Frutuoso Di Melo (European Commission, Director General for Development and Cooperation (DEVCO)) Discussant: Emily Jones (Global Economic Governance Programme, Blavatnik...
Kapuscinski lecture series: Lant Pritchett talk on 'Kinky Development - Why 1$/day does not solve poverty' 15 October 2014 Guest Lecture at the Metropolitan University Prague on Kinky Development - Why 1$/day does not solve poverty 15 October 2014 Program 17.00 -...
Book review of “Aid on the Edge of Chaos” by Ben Ramalingam Oxford University Press http://aidontheedge.info/quotes/#comment-41748 Summary: This book is a remarkable collection of knowledge and scientific research on foreign aid. It advocates for less...