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Developing countries and economic crisis
An initial interim assessment shows that the developing countries are suffering just as much as the industrialized countries from the consequences of the world economic crisis. The hardest hit are highly world-market oriented export countries. ...>>
Crisis management and Global Governance
The onset of the financial crisis has heralded the disintegration of the traditional structures of international politics and cooperation. The group of the twenty largest industrial and emerging countries (G20) has swallowed up the «World Economic Directorate» of the seven old industrialized countries plus Russia (G8), split up developing countries and relegated the UN to the role of onlooker. ...>>
Recipes against grabbing foreign land
The race by companies and countries to secure huge tracts of land in poor countries (land grabbing) is in full swing. Fresh news appears every day on the relevant web portals. Farmers and NGOs are warning against the further marginalization of the rural population. Yet the World Bank and other development agencies are betting on «win-win» outcomes and voluntary guidelines for investors. ...>>
The SDC and land grabbing
How do experts from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) view land grabbing in the South by companies and states? Alliance Sud News spoke with Andrea Ries and Sabina Schenk of the SDC Global Programme Food Security. ...>>
Landgrabbing: the Swiss connection
In Switzerland, several banks, financial funds and companies are involved in land grabbing. ...>>
