The representatives of big business, including the big accountancy firms, have been scurrying in and out of politicians’ offices trying to persuade them that getting companies to pay their fair share...
On May 9, after two days introduction and international inspiration, the third and last day of the participatory bottom-up planning workshop was all about taking action. The workshop was organised by...
Inspiration was a key word on May 8, the second day of the participatory bottom-up planning workshop organised by ActionAid Myanmar and the Union Ministry of National Planning and Economic...
On 7 May 2013, more than 250 senior government officials from 30 out of Myanmar’s 32 Ministries congregated in the capital city of Nay Pyi Taw to embark on a three days workshop about participatory...
More than 200 senior government officials from the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development as well as other relevant line departments across the country will attend a workshop on...
The Tax dialogue in many African countries has for a long time been left either to the tax collectors trying to reach their annual almost always 'bursting targets' or to the government technocrats....
Though Margaret Thatcher is no longer among the living, her ideology lives on. That ideology – known today as neoliberalism, or “free market fundamentalism” in a phrase coined by George Soros – is...
‘Mutual benefit’ is one of the key points in China’s 8 principles international cooperation which set out the country’s international development policy..China hopes that the formation of the...
This week leaders from the five BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – have been meeting in Durban to discuss what is next for this group of new global powers.Compared with...
Seven helicopters swarm in the hot Nairobi air - about 70,000 throats shouts and sings at Kenya's National Stadium and in Uhuru Park underneath. Activista Member Collins Odhiambo came to visit both...