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Would like to invite you to attend a jointly organized panel (co-sponsored by Eurostep, Social Watch, and the United Nations Development Programme) taking place in the NGO Forum for LDCs

 

 

Title:               Globalizing Poverty: The Reality of Aid

Date:               Tuesday May 15th 2001

Time:              14h00 to 17h00

Location:        EFTA Building

                        74, Rue de Trèves

                        1040 Brussels

 

BRIEF

The LDCs are more marginal in the world economy today than 10 years ago when governments agreed to address their special needs at the second UN conference for LDCs.  Debt remains an unacceptable burden preventing development, despite the HIPC initiative; aid levels have fallen to their lowest level ever even though aid is the single most important source of external finance for many LDCs; and poverty remains at unacceptable levels depite commitments made in Copenhagen at the 1995 World Social Summit to reduce and eventually eradicate poverty . 

 

The panel will examine the performance of the international community in fulfilling the commitments they made in 1990 and throughout the decade to provide financial resources for development in LDCs,  It will assess the role to which aid has been put and explore ways in which the effectiveness of aid can be increased.  It will also seek to identify new sources of finance for LDCs.

 

PANELISTS

·         Greetje Lubbi, Director, Novib 

       to provide overview of world aid, where it goes and to whom, and who benefits

·         Hilary Coulby, ActionAid

      to look at ways in which aid can be made more effective

·         Sophia Murphy, Co-ordinating Committee member, Social Watch

      to focus on achieving development targets, particularly for LDCs

·         Mumtaz Keklik, Economist, UNDP

      to address the affects of globalization on poverty reduction, aid, and debt relief

·         Opa Kapijipanga, Zambia National Co-ordinator, Afrodad

     to address issue of debt relief and poverty reduction strategies

·         Aminata Traoré, Ex-Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mali – (not confirmed)

to address the relationship between economic reforms and conflicts as well as poverty in Africa

 

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Updated on 10 May 2001
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