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US-EU: A Major New Commitment

Earth Times | March 18, 2002 | By Roman Rollnick and Jay Newton-Small The European Union and the United States launched ambitious development aid plans Monday when they pledged billions of dollars for poorer nations at the opening of the UN's first international conference on Financing for Development.

Does the U.S. Give Enough

Business Week | By Pete Engardio | March 18, 2002 In late March, President Bush and the leaders of Russia, Brazil, France, and dozens of other nations will convene at a Mexican ranch to discuss one of the world's most wrenching problems. Terrorism? Narcotics? No, the subject is global poverty.

At Risk: 56 Million Children

Toronto Star | By Rieky Stuart and Bernard Weil | March 15, 2002 More than 10 million children below the age of 5 died last year of preventable causes. If the world were on track to achieve the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, adopted in 2000, two million of them would be alive today.

Trade Gains Are What The Poor Need

The International Herald Tribune | By Mike Moore | March 14, 2002 In a precarious world, development is a key security issue. The UN Conference on Financing for Development, to be held in Monterrey, Mexico next week, is the most important opportunity for addressing global inequities in years.

Interview With George Soros: The Man Who Broke the Bank

The Independent (London) | By Rose George | March 14, 2002

Transcript of Press Conference by Deputy Secretary-General on Financing for Development Conference

M2 PRESSWIRE | March 12, 2002 Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General: Ladies and gentlemen, the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations is here to brief you on the International Conference on Financing for Development to take place later this month at Monterrey, Mexico.

Development: "Berlin Wall" to Hide Poor from Heads of State

Inter Press Service | By Diego Cevallos | March 11, 2002 A three-meter-high wall will conceal a small slum from the view of 50 heads of state and government who are to attend a Mar. 18-22 international conference on the search for solutions to the problems of the poor, to be held in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey.

Water Incorporated; The Commodification Of The World""s Water.

Earth Island Journal | Maude Barlow | March 22, 2002 We would like to believe that there is an infinite supply of fresh water on the planet, but that assumption is tragically false. Available fresh water amounts to less than half of one percent of all the water on Earth. The rest is seawater or polar ice. Fresh water is renewable only by rainfall.

The Poor, Alas, Are Still With Us

New Statesman | By Barbara Gunnell | March 4, 2002

Mexico Debt Financing Meet Promises Sparks

Africa News | February 20, 2002 Next month, Zambia joins the rest of the world in Mexico to explore the means of paying for social and economic progress in developing countries and finding solutions for sustainable development.