Not so the World Development Movement, nor Oxfam which has picked up on the same tale.
FORBES: Speculation Reduces Price Volatility, Not Increases It
The dollar-a-day definition of global destitution made its debut in the bank's 1990 World Development Report.
K. is now peddling ideas about how bicycles can promote Third World development.
The World Development Movement (WDM) is keen to curb this betting on prices.
FORBES: China Tackles Inflation. Food Prices Rising. Good For Monsanto & Syngenta.
The problems contrast sharply with the success in China of more low-key conglomerates such as New World Development and Cheung Kong.
NGOs, such as the World Development Movement, say this change of tone means the private sector is now on the defensive.
The World Development Movement's Barry Coates points to the proposed MAI rules.
New World Development and Hopewell Holdings didn't respond to requests for comment.
The World Development Movement is one of those NGOs full of political activists intent on sorting out how the world is run.
FORBES: The World Development Movement Seems Very Confused Here
Might there be someone out there with a few spare instruments so that we could get the World Development Movement doing something useful?
FORBES: Commodity Speculation Kills People: So Says the World Development Movement
One of the major campaigners for this point of view, one of the groups urging this course of action, is the World Development Movement.
FORBES: Speculation Reduces Price Volatility, Not Increases It
For instance, the government is now the owner of nearly 12% of New World Development and of more than 10% of Cheung Kong, two giant property conglomerates.
New World Development, led by the family of billionaire Cheng Yu-tung, moved to expand its global hotel business by acquiring Dallas-based Rosewood Hotels and Resorts last year.
FORBES: Chinese Tourist Travel To Hong Kong Bulges In November
New World Development, the Hong Kong conglomerate controlled by billionaire Cheng Yu-tung, is eyeing the spinoff of its some its hotel and hospitality assets amid a regional boom in the industry.
FORBES: Amid Hong Kong Hotel Boom, Billionaire Cheng Yu-tung's New World Weighs Spinoff
The World Development Report discusses the problems of child labour and poor families' limited access to financial markets on the same page, yet it fails to make a connection between the two.
World Development Report 2012: Gender, Equality and Development.
And yes, that is what the World Development Movement really does say, that speculators betting on agricultural food commodities, in futures, options and the like, produces rising food prices, greater volatility of food prices and that these things then kill poor people.
FORBES: Commodity Speculation Kills People: So Says the World Development Movement
Jordan is moving towards increased reliance on groundwater as an alternative to surface water and according to the 4th United Nations World Water Development Report 2012 co-authored by UNESCO, it is the fourth most water scarce country in the world.
For more information on the United Nations World Water Development Report 3, click here.
UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO :: International Water Day 2009 - Transboundary water
Can you show me anywhere in the industrialised world where development took place without the construction of roads?
Working experience in the international scientific cooperation, particularly with international water resources programmes and NGOs, preferably in several regions of the world including development countries.
Throughout the world, UNESCO is striving to increase scientific cooperation and strengthen national capacities, through the International Hydrological Programme (IHP) and the World Water Development Report (WWDR).
The combination of rapid population growth and changing diets may increase the demand for food by 70% by 2050, according to the recently released 4th UN World Water Development Report.
Ensure enabling conditions for the preparation of the flagship output of WWAP as well as timely production, launching and dissemination of the triennial World Water Development Report, including the appropriate coordination with other collaborating United Nations agencies within the framework of UN-Water.
Olcay Unver, the WWAP Coordinator, highlighted the related key messages from the 3rd as well as the upcoming 4th editions of the World Water Development Report (WWDR) - to be launched in March 2012 - to the assembled group.
The possibilities are tremendous and exciting about the change Clinton might be able to bring to the world of global development and finance, were she to take the helm of the World Bank.
The Director-General of UNESCO reiterated the position of the World Heritage Committee regarding questions of oil exploration and development at World Heritage sites.
Train for his vision of World Heritage calling for the creation of a World Heritage Trust which led to the development of the World Heritage Convention and his leadership in environmental protection as Head of the World Wildlife Fund.
This has brought real benefits to our two peoples, and contributed greatly to world peace and development.
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