"Ideas for Development" Blog
“Ideas for Development” is an international Blog meant to stimulate debate on development issues. It brings together a set of senior professionals engaged in this sphere through their careers and personal convictions. This Blog aims at offering a new forum for open discussion and interaction between scholars, students, professionals of various backgrounds and the public at large. Together, they can share information, viewpoints and visions for the future with the common goal of advancing the cause of development.
Several personalities contribute to this blog: Abdou Diouf (Organisation de la Francophonie), António Guterres (UN High Commissioner for Refugees), Donald Kaberuka (African Development Bank), Pascal Lamy (WTO), Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri (Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC) Supachai Panitchpakdi (UNCTAD), Jean-Michel Severino (Agence française de développement), Nemat (Minouche) Shafik (Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Development - DFID), Josette Sheeran (World Food Programme) and Achim Steiner (Executive Director of UNEP).
You can also read our experts' contributions - NGOs, think tanks and academic institutions - who share their expertise on this platform of discussion.
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Find out the different contributions of Jean-Michel Severino, the CEO of the AFD:
Copenhagen: Rendez-vous with Africa
16 december 2009
Development Aid and Good Governance
2009/09/01
From official development assistance to the financing of global public policies
2009/03/30
Chers amis, militons pour une relance verte et solidaire
2009/02/19
Cash on delivery aid: changing the incentive mix
2009/01/08
What role for the private sector in development?
2008/12/07
Population and natural resources: managing pressure
2008/11/03
An Ethical Framework for Debt Management?
2008/09/26
What consequences in case of a failure of the Doha round ?
2008/07/30
What role for the private sector in development?
2008/06/19
Microfinance, micro-impacts?
2008/05/06
Agriculture and energy in Africa
2008/04/04
Should we impose social and environmental standards to developing countries?
2008/01/18
On development and the global environmental crisis
2007/11/21
Development aid and fragile States
2007/10/21
Millennium Development Goals: looking beyond 2015
2007/10/03