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The smog of war

... be running the State Department in 2020 when the deal is supposed to take effect. The International Energy Agency (IEA), an independent organization operating under the aegis of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) indicatesin an article published in The Independent, that the COP-21deal will require $16.5 trillion in contributions from major powers by 2030 to help parties that have ratified COP-10 meet their voluntary goals of dramatically reducing carbon ...

23.01.2016

BRICS… More Hungry For Power Than Food?

... Al Qaeda attack on the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Nobody speculated that the BRICS (now with South Africa since 2010) would seek to become a doppelganger for the Paris-based Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). But even without a headquarters, a leader and lacking a professionally crafted media image, that is what’s happening. Meanwhile, Russia has hedged its bets, announcing its intention to join the OECD in 2015, after national elections ...

01.09.2013

International Development Assistance in the New Economic Environment

... agreement to annually increase the volume official development assistance (ODA) funding by 50 billion dollars to 2010, from 2004 levels. In particular, the G8 pledged to augment its aid to Africa by 25 billion dollars annually up to 2010. In 2011, OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) member countries on average allocated just 0.31 percent of GNP, or a total of 133.5 billion dollars to help achieve development goals . Furthermore in 2011, total assistance in real terms was 2.7 percent lower ...

08.11.2012

Poll conducted

  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
     21 (19%)
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