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Zambia: What jobs? In whose hands?
I have now visited several ex-miners and their families all hit by job losses. The thread of experiences is clear. Mining has at some points provided jobs, a local economy, public services and...
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Zambia: The hardest choices
I don’t know how I would handle it. Zambia is a country that desperately needs help to eradicate HIV, yet funding cuts because of the global financial crisis are forcing aid workers to make extremely...
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Zambia: G20, we need new economic order
In August, Zambia experienced a month-long strike from teachers and health workers. The main contention by health workers was the salary package and working conditions. Government was not prepared to...
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What will I remember of 2009?
When the year draws to an end, editors of the world compete in an effort to sum up the past twelve months in the brashest colours to attract readers’ attention. With a new decade looming, the exercise...
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Financial crisis: Lessons we missed
Despite a recognition that poor countries will be hardest hit by the crisis even though they did not cause it, the development perspective has been largely absent from G20 debate, and therefore the...
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Robin Hood Tax: Getting angry or making merry?
Pledge your support for the Robin Hood Tax At last year’s Put People First rally, I marched alongside a banker. Mind you, he took a while to admit that to me. Bankers aren’t the most popular people at...
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Opinion: Robin Hood Tax
Pledge your support for the Robin Hood Tax This blog is an extract from the Pope Paul VI Memorial Lecture, given by the Rt. Hon. Shirley Williams The banking and financial crisis that has hit much of...
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Robin Hood Tax: Some answers to critics
Pledge your support for the Robin Hood Tax As the dust settles after the launch of the Robin Hood Tax campaign in the first week of February, it is not surprising that our critics are beginning to bite...
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Economic Crisis: Two cheers for the United Nations
This month, CAFOD was invited to speak at the UN High Level Dialogue on Financing for Development and UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) special high level meeting with the World Bank, IMF...
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Robin Hood Tax: Momentum building towards budget and G20
EU Heads of State got us a step closer to Robin Hood taxes and to fairer finance last week. At their Council meeting in Brussels on Thursday, European Leaders agreed that “Member States should...
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