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Beyond good intentions
Related to this project: Unite For Sight Nigeria


Jennifer Staple of Unite For Sight has reinstated the relevance and importance of best practices in international eye health care. She made this statement in her article published in Eye News.

Eye health is a global issue and an emergency whose time would come. Make it happen!

December 24, 2009 | 3:13 AM Comments  0 comments

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Economic Development in Africa Report 2009
Related to this project: Unite For Sight Nigeria


With a captivating theme: 'Strengthening Regional Economic Intregration For Africa's Development' the Report focuses on ways of strengthening regional economic integration for Africa´s development. It complements existing institutional analyses of regional integration in Africa with an economic analysis of trade in goods and services, migration and investment, and surveys recent trends in these flows and assesses the potential for increasing them in ways that will support economic development. The report finds that - when designed and implemented within a broader development strategy regional integration could help improve competitiveness and serve as a launching pad for African economies´ effective participation in the global economy.

December 24, 2009 | 3:07 AM Comments  0 comments

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Economic, financial crises far from over, warns latest UN trade report

The global recession is unprecedented in its depth and breadth, and has left no country unscathed, according a new report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) launched today, predicting a gloomy economic future.

The UNCTAD report blames excessive risk-taking made possible by financial deregulation and innovation in obscure financial instruments for the economic turmoil inflicted across the world over the past year.

The crisis that initially began in the financial sector now has turned into a dramatic downturn in the wider economy with global gross domestic product (GDP) expected to fall by more than 2.5 per cent this year, according to the 2009 Trade and Development Report.

GDP in the developed nations is forecast to contract by some 4 per cent this year, and output in the so-called “transition economies” is expected to fall by more than 6 per cent, while growth in developing countries is expected to slow from 5.4 per cent in 2008 to 1.3 per cent in 2009.

“The outlook is bleak,” UNCTAD’s Director of Division on Globalization and Development Strategies Heiner Flassbeck told reporters in New York.

Mr. Flassbeck cautioned that even in the most optimistic circumstances it could take up to six years for many countries to return to levels of GDP reached in 2007 before the crisis.

“On the global scale there are only two things that can promote growth,” he said. “One is consumption [and] the other is investment. There is nothing else, unfortunately.”

He noted that rising unemployment rates and depressed wages are obstacles to consumption, and new investment is hampered by idle manufacturing capacity and cuts in profits.

“We can only urge governments to go on with stimulating the economy,” said Mr. Flassbeck, stressing that all “talks about early exit strategies are premature. The world has to wait another one or even two years until the stimulus can be withdrawn and the private sector [can] go ahead on its own.”

In addition, banks still need to be recapitalized and their balance sheets cleansed of toxic assets before they can be guided back to their traditional role as providers of credit to investors in fixed capital, according to the report.

The report also spotlights elements of reform for the international financial architecture, which it says is long overdue, calling for a fundamental rethink of global financial governance to stabilize trade and financial relations by reducing the potential for gains from speculative capital flows. This will reduce the likelihood of similar crises occurring and help create a stable macro-economic environment conducive to growth and smooth structural change in poor countries.

December 24, 2009 | 2:50 AM Comments  0 comments

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Human Development Report 2009

The 2009 Human Development Report launched 5 October 2009 reports on the range of evidence about the positive impacts of migration on human development, through such avenues as increased household incomes and improved access to education and health services.

Human development is about putting people at the centre of development. It is about people realizing their potential, increasing their choices and enjoying the freedom to lead lives they value. Since 1990, annual Human Development Reports have explored challenges including poverty, gender, democracy, human rights, cultural liberty, globalization, water scarcity and climate change.

Migration, both within and beyond borders, has become an increasingly prominent theme in domestic and international debates, and is the topic of the 2009 Human Development Report (HDR09). The starting point is that the global distribution of capabilities is extraordinarily unequal, and that this is a major driver for movement of people. Migration can expand their choices —in terms of incomes, accessing services and participation, for example— but the opportunities open to people vary from those who are best endowed to those with limited skills and assets. These underlying inequalities, which can be compounded by policy distortions, is a theme of the report.

December 24, 2009 | 2:46 AM Comments  0 comments

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WOMEN’S ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES BOOSTS GENDER EQUALITY

Access to sexual and reproductive health will boost development targets and promote gender equality, the head of the United Nations Development Programme Helen Clark said in Germany, at a gathering of NGOs on the issue of health and development. Additionally, she stressed that women have the right to choose for themselves whether or when to have children and that achieving universal access to reproductive health remains a massive challenge with donor funding for family planning plummeting in most developing countries in recent years.

December 24, 2009 | 2:45 AM Comments  0 comments

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How Global Cooperation Saved the World
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IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn told policymakers from 186 countries gathered in Istanbul for the IMF/World Bank Group Annual Meetings that global cooperation had saved the world from a far worse crisis and leaders should now seize the opportunity to shape a post-crisis world.

He stated that barely a year ago, people feared the worst. But after concerted action to combat the crisis, the world had pulled back from the brink. “Even if it is much too early to declare victory, we have at least stepped onto the road to recovery.”

Mr. Strauss-Kahn also made a remarkable statement that: 'It no longer makes sense for global economic policy to be the concern of just a small group of countries” while promising that recent reforms at the IMF would carry all countries along to achieve and build a stronger and better post crisis world.

October 13, 2009 | 4:50 PM Comments  0 comments



Nigerian youths tasked on nation’s image
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Vice President Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has enjoined Nigerian youths to shun criminal activities and social vices, saying such activities not only have negative impact on the country’s image, but also cast a negative shadow on the efforts of hardworking youths.

He stated this when he received members of the Future Nigeria Project, who were led by the Chairman of the Editorial Board of The Guardian Newspapers, Dr. Reuben Abati, on a courtesy visit to State House, Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Vice President Jonathan pointed out that even when crime is perpetrated by a small percentage, their activities rub off negatively on the entire society, adding that for a society to be acclaimed as corruption-free, its level of crime has to be extremely low. To this end, he charged youths in the country to eschew crime and other social vices, and do more to improve on Nigeria ’s image.

“We cannot talk about re-branding the image of Nigeria if the youths are not re-branded and there is no future for this country if there is no future for the youths. Hence the 7-point Agenda and the Vision 20-2020 exist to chart a befitting future for our youths and all Nigerians,” Jonathan stated.

He praised the commitment of youth movements like the Future Nigeria Project towards harnessing the talents of youths, saying Government is happy with their efforts and will continually support progressive ideas from them through the Ministry of Youth Development.

October 13, 2009 | 4:43 PM Comments  0 comments



Nigerian President starts post-amnesty process

President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has said that the post-amnesty period would require great patience, perseverance and hard work.

President Yar’Adua was speaking to leaders of the former militants from the Niger Delta, during a recent meeting at State House in Abuja, convened to discuss post-amnesty issues.

Also in attendance were Governors of the Nigeria's South-South zone, Ministers of Defence, the Niger Delta ministry, Finance ministry, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, the National Security Adviser, the Special Adviser on Petroleum and heads of intervention agencies of government – NAPEP, NDDC, NDE, SMEDAN, MDG, and PTDF.

He said the ‘great achievement of the laying down of arms and renunciation of militancy must be supported to ensure peace, security and development in the Niger Delta region’, adding that this will require ‘great patience, perseverance and hard work from all of us’.

President Yar’Adua appealed to all concerned in the process to show ‘sincerity of purpose and patience, because development takes time and huge resources’ and not to lose sight of the goal.

The President further stated that if ‘we treat the post-amnesty process right, Nigeria will become a global example of how to achieve peace and development under the most difficult circumstances, as well as a reference point for the international community to emulate’, adding that the Administration was already working hard to ensure an unqualified success of the process.

President Yar’Adua said the willingness of the former militant leaders to attend the meeting showed that Nigerians are good people, and thanked them for responding to his invitation.

Responding on behalf of the Governors, Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State said the Niger-Delta governors were convinced that the post-amnesty period would be very exciting for all Niger Delta people, and pledged their full and total support for the process.

Further response from one of the former militant leaders, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, confirmed their high hopes for the future, and pledged to support and cooperate with the Administration, for the development of the Niger Delta.

October 13, 2009 | 4:35 PM Comments  0 comments



ASUU Strike and the future
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Nigerians would never know the cost of the strike embarked by ASUU until tomorrow when the nation will call obey. Many youths will disobey because when they called Nigeria did nothing and then, even ASUU, if it survives, will be affected. All those ones studying abroad will be enrolled in our drama too as they would be welcomed back to a home of no love. This is a battle for Nigeria, but the approach is not wholesome and inclusive! Let the strike be called of now, if Nigeria should survive.

August 30, 2009 | 9:27 PM Comments  0 comments



New Private Equity Fund to Strengthen Health Care in Africa
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The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the African Development Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the German development finance institution DEG announced that they have created a new private equity fund that will invest in Africa’s health sector. The Health in Africa Fund will invest in small- and medium-sized companies in sub-Saharan Africa, such as health clinics and diagnostic centers, with the goal of helping low-income Africans gain access to affordable, high-quality health services. The fund will help implement key recommendations of IFC’s report, ‘The Business of Health in Africa: Partnering with the Private Sector to Improve People’s Lives,’ which found that the private sector already delivers about half of all health-related goods and services in Africa, and that greater investment in private health companies could have major health and economic benefits for low-income Africans.

June 22, 2009 | 1:08 PM Comments  0 comments

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