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Rosia Montana: The European Union and the continent’s largest open pit gold mine project
This article was co-authored by Alexandru Firus We don’t really expect the natural resource of gold to be a problem for good governance in Europe. But it might be one in the light of the latest developments in an ambitious gold mining project in one of the newer member states […]
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Climate Change: a symptom not a sickness
It is no secret that ‘good governance’ and democratisation are top priorities of development agendas in the Pacific region. While numerous Pacific nations have made the transition to ‘democracy’, at least in technical terms, its realities have proved less than ideal and far from participatory. Perhaps not surprisingly, given the […]
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NGOs and Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government
The backdrop to the famine in Somalia is a history of civil war and the collapse of the central functioning government in 1991. What many news outlets fail to mention is that with the civil war came devastation, displacement and the destruction of productive farm land and essential infrastructure. Factor […]
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International aid: towards a responsible partnership for development
The eighth of the 2015 United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) states that the international community is to take measures to increase cooperation and encourage a partnership between the developed and the developing world. With a Human Development Index (HDI) of 0.49, and with 40% of its population living below […]
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Civil Society Participation and UN Women
Globalsister.org presses for a role for civil society as advisors and actors in the functioning of UN Women. Read more