Full Coverage: Finance

30.05.2007 NEW YORK, May 29 (OneWorld) - Whoever takes charge of the World Bank in July must be elected, not selected, say experts on global financing for development in a survey conducted by a U.S.-based independent think-tank.

23.05.2007 BRUSSELS, May 23 (IPS) - Mobile phone banking is expanding across the region from South Africa to Kenya and is putting the poor directly in control of their own finances like never before.

23.05.2007 A recent G8 Finance Ministers Meeting held in Potsdam, Germany, overlooked their failure to deliver the promised aid of US$ 50 billion a year to Africa. Oxfam International’s research on current trends of G8 reveals that it had defaulted on its earlier aid commitments made in 2005.

15.05.2007 Balkanskata mreza za razvoj na gragjanskoto opstestvo e gorda da go prezentira tretoto izdanie na periodicnata publikacija Balkanski gragjanski praktiki. Ova izdanie go nosi naslovot „Priracnik za gragjanski organizacii – izvori na finansiranje od Evropskata unija”. Priracnikot e proizvod na obukata za mobilizacija na resursi organizirana vo ramkite na EU poddrzan proekt „Partnerstvo vo akcija – zajaknuvanje na Balkanskata mreza na gragjanskoto opsrtestvo”.

12.05.2007 Balkan Civil Society Development Network is proud to present the third issue of its periodical publication Balkan Civic Practices. This edition carries the title "A Guide to European Union - Funding for NGOs". The Guide is a follow-up to the training on mobilization of resources organized in the framework of EU-funded project "Partnership in Action - Strenghtening Civil Society Development Network".

03.05.2007 The government has received more than 75 percent of foreign aid out of the Rs.100 billion anticipated for the year 2007 with the signing of agreements to receive Rs.72 billion within the first four months of the year. State Revenue and Finance Minister Dr Ranjith Siyambalapitiya told the Daily News that it was a great victory on the part of the Government to receive such amounts of foreign aid