41. North Korea's Game
(Panorama/Development)

... force it to provide assistance – while giving its population the impression of national importance.   Why do governments restrict freedoms?  Restrictions on trade in certain goods and services are ...

42. A well-managed crisis?
(Panorama/Finance)

... stimulus packages, which include jobs in public infrastructure, creation of green jobs, and assistance for the unemployed in the form of training and social protection. Another Great Depression has probably ...

43. Why development in Afghanistan is so important?
(Panorama/Development)

... Office on Drugs and Crime. "Even more frightening is the fact that governments have not recognized that they can only tackle this threat by addressing all links in the chain: assistance to farmers to reduce ...

44. China's foreign aid game
(Panorama/Development)

At one point in the mid-1990s, China was the world's biggest recipient of development assistance from the developed countries of the OECD.  According to the most recent OECD data, in 2006-07, China was ...

45. Future Dead Aid
(Panorama/Development)

... history!  Surely we have learned the lessons of the past.  Or have we? According to OECD statistics, the leading recipients of official development assistance in recent years have been Iraq, Nigeria ...

46. Natural disaster assistance -- dead or live aid?
(Panorama/Development)

... disasters which are in fact increasing in their frequency.  These natural disasters are also reminders of the assistance that these countries need to cope.  But is such assistance "live aid" or "dead ...

47. The poison of aid
(Panorama/Development)

Why is Africa still so poor?  According to Dambisa Moyo, it is because the West has provided so much "help" to Africa.  Over the past 50 years, more than $1 trillion of official development assistance ...

48. Dead as a Doha
(Panorama/International Trade)

... to see the benefits of trade.  Further, OECD estimates that total support given to OECD agriculture is at $375 billion in 2008, more than triple the size of official development assistance!   With ...

49. Fighting corruption
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... donor community to ensure development assistance is designed to strengthen institutions of governance and oversight in recipient countries, and that aid flows themselves are fortified against abuse and ...

50. Failed states
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... states with more aid.  According to the OECD, in 2007, $37.2 billion of official development assistance (ODA) went to fragile and conflict-affected states, or 38.4 per cent of total ODA.  However, half ...

51. Development
(Category)

... moving backwards. Western governments have made many promises to provide increased assistance to these countries, promises which are rarely fulfilled. Should we be worried? Read more  ...