Sentences with phrase «overseas development»

They say that both Labour and Conservatives are committed to maintaining defence spending and overseas development assistance at present levels.

Review policies, subsidies and overseas development aid to promote sustainable palm oil and remove harmful incentives that may promote irresponsible or even illegal palm oil.

A recent quarterly financial report from the firm outlined plans for business growth, citing the studio's desire to «update the model for alliances with overseas development companies».

Spending on overseas development, on front line health and education services and on the police is to be protected, all this leaving huge cuts in prospect for everything else.

The necessary resources could come from carbon finance, overseas development assistance, private investment, and the various kinds of guarantee and insurance instruments available to the international finance institutions.

Produced by the London - based Overseas Development Institute and the Washington - based Oil Change International the 73 - page analysis also noted the costs of renewables is falling and the investment returns are better than fossil fuels.

18.30 Environment secretary Caroline Spelman attends a panel discussion organised by the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development on the Rio +20 summit

Britain's Overseas Development Administration says it is in favour of contraception and information services for young people and will join other countries arguing for these to be endorsed by the declaration at Cairo.

While the U.S. is much the biggest provider of overseas development aid (ODA) in absolute terms — sending $ 32.2 billion abroad in 2014 — it falls behind if its aid is considered as a proportion of gross national income (GNI)-- a measure that aggregates gross domestic product (GDP) with income obtained from abroad.

They said, «In order to lower development costs and shorten time frame for development, Capcom will restructure its development organisations, which are the core parts of the company's business, increasing ratio of in - house developments by focusing on the overhaul of overseas development companies.»

«The report by Oil Change International, Friends of the Earth U.S., the Sierra Club and WWF European Policy Office, for the first time ever, details public support for energy projects from G20 public finance institutions (such as overseas development aid agencies and export credit agencies) and multilateral development banks.»

Socio (s): UK Department for International Development, Overseas Development Group of the University of East Anglia, Marine Resources Assessment Group, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Sciences, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

The survey was conducted in partnership with the Canada - ASEAN Business Council and was sponsored by the United Overseas Development Bank.

Other flagship overseas developments - in Chicago, Los Angeles, Sydney and Australia's Gold Coast - are also available for sale, according to one source.

In Australia, as well as reflecting the favourable overseas developments, financial markets have been influenced by the run of strong local economic data, with the result that markets had begun to anticipate some tightening of monetary policy ahead of the Board's November decision, though a rise in cash rates had only been fully priced for the December meeting.

Capcom underscored its efforts to centralize development and cut down on overseas development costs, though upcoming games like Lost Planet 3 and Dead Rising 3 are both coming from Western external and internal studios, respectively.

Personal Overseas Development — Non-profit organization arranging ethical volunteering opportunities around the world.

I've worked in various medical and overseas development organisations as well as the Arts so it's a real mix.

Moreover, most of the money that's been mobilized so far is in fact recycled overseas development aid (ODA).

In 2004 and 2008, the Copenhagen Consensus Center held two major projects that helped to shape overseas development spending and philanthropic decisions for years to come.

When it comes to overseas development finance, China is definitely a country to watch.

Unlike most overseas development aid it goes directly to the people that need it, like Ugastove, and the close monitoring required by the carbon offset standards ensures that people genuinely benefit from the investment.

Following several years of implementing training placements for young African lawyers, alongside other initiatives including overseas development trips to Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria, Essex Court Chambers and law firm Stephenson Harwood have been recognised as pioneers in this field and named as «Strategic Partners of the Year 2016».

Eileen overseas the development of Child Contact Centres training and practice standards and procedures.

For more information on G20 fossil fuel subsidies, including public finance, read Oil Change International and Overseas Development Institute's report: Empty Promises: G20 Subsidies to Oil, Gas, and Coal Production

When Labour regained power, he was Secretary of State for Education and Science between 1974 and 1975, subsequently becoming Minister for Overseas Development with a seat in the cabinet until 1976.

A final version of the report is due to go to potential donors, including Britain's Overseas Development Administration, by the end of the year.

The unhealthy bugger clashs with overseas development.

After being introduced by Save the Children chief executive, Kevin Watkins, Mr Crabb began: «One of the real challenges that we have on the centre - right of British politics... is how we remake and restate the case for our global responsibilities and sticking with our policies to invest in overseas development at a time when there are so many domestic pressures and cut backs in spending.»

That means the pledge contributes towards the UK's commitment to use 0.7 per cent of its gross national income for overseas development assistance.

Close to one - in - five Canadians (17 %) believe that Canada spends more than the UN target of 0.7 per cent of gross national income on overseas development assistance.

As Labour Member of Parliament from 1957 for East Ham North, later Newham North East, he was a minister of state in Harold Wilson's first government at Education and Science (1964 — 1966), then as Minister of Public Buildings and Works (1966 — 1967), and finally was put in charge of the still - new Ministry of Overseas Development (1967 — 1969).

«Overseas Development Aid from Europe is still focused on former colonies, but it is becoming less and less biased... Colonial links are very strong; it is incredible how strong still are, given the years that have passed,» Ravi Bhatia, a director at Standard & Poor's who specializes in Africa, told CNBC this week.

Illari Aragon, Catholic Agency For Overseas Development's (CAFOD) programme office for Peru, told Premier how influential the pontiff is in the country.

Lester Brown, formerly with the Overseas Development Council and currently president of the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, D.C., is probably the most knowledgeable person in the country on the subject.

Catholic Charities USA and some overseas development groups are cases in point.

According to the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD), 4.7 million Palestinians are living under an occupation of Gaza and the West Bank that is illegal under international humanitarian law.

James Grant, president of the Overseas Development Council, pointed out that the myth of producing more in order that all may have enough is being shattered.

Its sister UK and Irish aid charity Catholic Agency For Overseas Development (CAFOD), has revealed one of its employees accused of sexual misconduct when he worked for Oxfam in Haiti has been dismissed from his current role.

Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) partnered with local masons for the Safer Homes Rebuilding project.

Overseas Development Aid (ODA) presents debatable issues from the perspective of human rights.

For example, according to figures published by the Overseas Development Council in 1977 Sri Lanka, which had a per capita annual income of only $ 130, measured 83 on the Physical Quality of Life Index, whereas Iran, whose per capita annual income was nearly ten times as high, measured only 38.31 Subsequent events in Iran suggest that the high level of income did not represent much personal satisfaction on the part of masses of people!

This assumption is still dominant, but the practical distortions it has introduced into the actual course of «development» have finally become so apparent that an alternative measure of the success of policies has been proposed by the Overseas Development Council.

Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) said it has extreme concerns after anti-Muslim rioting flared again in the hills of central Sri Lanka on Wednesday despite a state of emergency.

He served as Minister for Primary Industries (1983 - 1987), Minister for Primary Industries and Energy (1987 - 1991), Minister for Transport and Communications (1991), Minister for Trade and Overseas Development (1991 - 1993) and Treasurer (1991) in the Labor government of Bob Hawke.