Development Finance Watch, Issue 117

Eurodad Newsletter 26 April 2013 – Issue #117     European Network on Debt and Development DEVELOPMENT FINANCE WATCH

	! Take part in our short newsletter survey! (just 5 minutes)   Top Story » IMF and World Bank hold their Spring Meetings making gloomy days for development The Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank just ended in Washington DC and brought little promise of sunny days ahead for development. Read more     News » EU’s support to private sector development: focus on poverty reduction and job creation is needed An April seminar on the “Evaluation of the European Union’s support to private sector development in third countries” showed that much more needs to be done to maximise the impact of EU money on the ground, since linkages between EU support to private sector development and poverty reduction and job creation remain very distant. Read more     News » Eurodad-Glopolis International Conference 2013 Don’t miss the major opportunity for information sharing, analysis and strategy session of the year: the Eurodad biennial conference, which takes place in Prague from 3-5 June! The deadline for registration is Tuesday, 30 April. Read more     Blog » Aid to the private sector: how to do it, that is the question A debate on the role of business in development cooperation last Thursday, 11 April in Amsterdam, raised one particularly revealing question for me: is it possible to reconcile two unrelated (and potentially conflicting) ambitions that the Dutch government has: “to eradicate extreme poverty” and “to facilitate success for companies doing business abroad”? Read more     Featured resource » Videos from the event “Is aid to the private sector promoting responsible investments?” – organised on 21 March 2013 at the European Parliament – are available in French, English and Spanish.   Read more about this event: Press Release and Blog         FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AND LIKE US ON FACEBOOK!   If you have any feedback on articles, content suggestions for future issues or other thoughts, please write to: assistant@eurodad.org		What’s New   Issue #117   26 April 2013 ACTION ALERT Urge the World Bank’s safeguards policies to uphold human rights.   FEATURED MEMBER Forum Syd supports global economic policies that promote fair and sustainable global development.     EURODAD MENTIONS Eurodad’s report Cashing in on climate change? is mentioned in Friends of the Earth’s Pro-poor climate finance report and Bretton Wood Project-CAFOD working paper.   Eurodad’s paper Private profit for public good? is mentioned in BOND’s report on private climate finance Jesse Griffiths shares his views on the International Monetary Fund in the French newspaper, Libération (in French).     EURODAD IN ACTION Bodo Ellmers and Jeroen Kwakkenbos participated to the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings.     EVENTS What: Tracking the records of development banks in the Middle East When: 29 April 2013 Where: Brussels, Belgium   What: Eurodad/Glopolis International Conference When: 3-5 June 2013 Where: Prague, Czech Republic.     VACANCY ActionAid Zambia is looking for a Tax Justice Advisor.
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