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Pakistan's Federal Budget 2009-10 : Issues and Challenges
The Federal Budget-2009-10 was presented by the State Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs on June 13th. Currently, the budget is being debated in the house. The Pakistan civil society has responded to the budget, highlighting a range of peoples issues which are important for consideration in the pursuit of building a stronger, just and democratic nation.
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2009 Budget will be Closely Monitored : DG BUDGET, Abuja , Nigeria
Contributed by: CISLAC, Nigeria.
In an interview to the Economic Confidential, the Director General of the Budget Office of the Federation, Dr. Bright Okogu, talks about the nature of 2009 budget, its implementation, sharing about the mechanisms put in place for its close monitoring. In this exclusive interview with the Economic Confidential after a workshop on Budget Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation in Abuja this former Special Adviser to Minister of Finance, gives assurances on 2009 Budget.Here are some excerpts.
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Rethinking Macro Economic Strategies from a Human Rights Perspective
(Why MES with Human Rights II)
-networkideas.org
(Radhika Balakrishnan, Diane Elson & Rajeev Patel)
This report is a follow up to the previous report of 2005. Amidst the ongoing financial crisis, the report provides the basis for the political agenda that must be advanced in order to ensure that the fundamental rights and interests of the "sufferers" are protected and expanded. This document proposes a novel focus and methodology to evaluate macroeconomic policies from the perspective of the progressive realization of the people's economic and social human rights, and the States' compliance with their minimal, basic responsibilities to their people
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Call For Action: Economies & Policies for Global Transformation
Prague Conference Declaration, April 1, 2009
Declaration: Transforming the World in Crisis: We participants of the conference, The World in Crisis : Economies & Policies for Global Transformation, have discussed for three days in Prague the root causes, impacts and responses to the Financial crisis, economic meltdown, climate change, mismanagement of natural resource use, increasing equity and volatile food and oil prices from systemic perspective of the world’s poor & vulnerable.
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The Crisis of the Capitalist World
Prabhat Patnaik
The current crisis of the capitalist world is commonly explained as resulting from "a lack of government regulation of the financial sector", "insufficient supervision allowing reckless lending by financial institutions", "the unbridled greed of the financiers", in short a series of mistakes and aberrations.
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Trajectories of Development: Thinking since the rise of New Nation States
Prof. Thandika Mkwadiwire
In the post-colonial rise of new nation states, the main focus was accumulation and production leading to a new field of development. Some of the progressive nations claimed a socialistic inclination.
This stage when nation states were free to think about development and protection and distribution collapsed by the end of the 70s, when there was a dramatic change in how policy space was viewed.
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Government attempt at gender budgeting remains an attempt
-Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, India
Three years after the Centre decided to publish separately the money it spends on women in the Union Budget, experts are questioning the methodology adopted, which in most cases inflates the amount spent.An analysis of 21 schemes benefiting women by the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA), a Delhi-based non-government organisation, stated that the government had included schemes which had male beneficiaries also under the head “100 per cent women specific programmes”.
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The Commission of Experts on Reform of the International Monetary & Financial System
These are the preliminary recommendations of the UN Expert Commission on Finance,
constituted by the President of the UN General Assembly, chaired by Prof. Joseph Stiglitz. See the recommendations here.
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Recouping public money: claiming participation, Nepal
A peoples story from Nepal
 In the Banke district of Nepal, village groups overseeing the accounts of Channahwa’s Nepal Rashtriya Primary School claimed back NPR 4500 from the school management committee members.
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Letter to European Commission
Evo Morales
S.E/. José Manuel Durao Barroso, PRESIDENT of the European Commission, La Paz, 16 January 2009
Esteemed President : I profoundly regret that the European Commission has proposed to the Council of Europe that the negotiations for a Regional Association Agreement between the European Union and the Andean Community, as initiated under the Bolivian Presidency of CAN on 14 June 2007, be considered terminated.
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Budget Analysis for People Centered Advocacy
John Samuel
One of the main objectives of budget analysis by the practitioners of people-centred advocacy is to break the existing monopoly over knowledge and empower common people to seek transparency and accountability from the government machinery.
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