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Researchers at the Overseas Development Institute indicate the main obstacles to greater funding from donors include: donor priorities, aid architecture, and the lack of evidence and advocacy.
Recent reports on progress on the Millennium Development Goals by the Overseas Development Institute indicated four key reasons for economic success.
* Social Protection research from the Overseas Development Institute
An Overseas Development Institute briefing paper written in 1979 focuses its attention on the key issues regarding the LDCs ` role as the Group of 77 in the international community.
In an analysis of the programme by the Overseas Development Institute, CABDA's focus on individual and community capacity-building is highlighted.
A new Ministry of Overseas Development was established, with its greatest success at the time being the introduction of interest-free loans for the poorest countries.
The Minister of Overseas Development, Barbara Castle, set a standard in interest relief on loans to developing nations which resulted in changes to the loan policies of many donor countries, “ a significant shift in the conduct of rich white nations to poor brown ones .” Loans were introduced to developing countries on terms that were more favourable to them than those given by governments of all other developed countries at that time.
It was developed for the Overseas Development Council in the mid-1970s by Morris David Morris, as one of a number of measures created due to dissatisfaction with the use of GNP as an indicator of development.
* Research on the role of Agriculture in Poverty Reduction from the Overseas Development Institute
The drive for rapid urban growth and often efficiency can lead to less equitable urban development, think tanks such as the Overseas Development Institute have even proposed policies that encourage labour intensive growth as a means of absorbing the influx of low skilled and unskilled labour.
According to research by the Overseas Development Institute pro-poor urbanisation will require labour intensive growth, supported by labour protection, flexible land use regulation and investments in basic services.
& Petheram, R. J. 2004, Cardamom cultivation and forest biodiversity in northwest Vietnam, Agricultural Research and Extension Network, Overseas Development Institute, London UK.
A study by researchers at the Overseas Development Institute ( ODI ) of 24 countries that experienced growth found that in 18 cases, poverty was alleviated.
Researchers at the Overseas Development Institute compares situations such as in Uganda, where during a period of annual growth of 2. 5 % between 2000 and 2003, the percentage of people living in poverty actually increased by 3. 8 %.
The new agency would include the Office of the United States Trade Representative, currently part of the Executive Office of the President, as well as the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the United States Trade and Development Agency, and the Small Business Administration, which are all currently independent agencies.
), eminent development economist, adviser to the Burmese Government and Ministry of Overseas Development.
She entered the Cabinet as the first Minister for Overseas Development, becoming the fourth woman in British history ever to hold position in a Cabinet, after Margaret Bondfield, Ellen Wilkinson and Florence Horsbrugh.
Researchers at the Overseas Development Institute found that empowering citizens in developing countries to be able to hold their domestic government's to account was incredibly complex in practice.
In addition, a recent Natural Resource Perspective paper by the Overseas Development Institute found that good infrastructure, education and effective information services in rural areas were necessary to improve the chances of making agriculture work for the poor.
A study by the Overseas Development Institute evaluates the benefits of the Malawi Government Agricultural Inputs Subsidy Programme, which was implemented in 2006 / 2007 to promote access to and use of fertilizers in both maize and tobacco production to increase agricultural productivity and food security.
According to policy conclusions of the Overseas Development Institute the voucher for coupon system can be an effective way of rationing and targeting subsidy access to maximize production and economic and social gains.
According to researchers at the Overseas Development Institute, the lack of infrastructure in many developing countries represents one of the most significant limitations to economic growth and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs ).

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* Istituto agronomico per l ' oltremare ( Overseas Agronomic Institute ), a technical and scientific body of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
After primary schooling, he obtained a post in the French colonial administration, where he impressed his superiors and gained a scholarship to study in France, at the Institute of Overseas Higher Studies in Paris.
Research from the Overseas Development Institute suggests that sanitation and hygiene promotion needs to be better ' mainstreamed ' in development, if the MDG on sanitation is to be met.
* David Zweig, Chen Changgui, and Stanley Rosen ; China's Brain Drain to the United States: Views of Overseas Chinese Students and Scholars in the 1990s Institute of East Asian Studies, 1995 online edition
Researchers at the Overseas Development Institute also highlight the importance of using economic growth to improve the human condition, raising people out of poverty and achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
Researchers at the Overseas Development Institute have criticised past studies of good governance to place too little importance on developing political parties, their capacity and their ties to their grassroots supporters.
* Research on Agriculture and its role in international development from the Overseas Development Institute
Amos has also been Deputy Chair of the Runnymede Trust ( 1990 – 98 ), a Trustee of the Institute for Public Policy Research, a non-executive Director of the University College London Hospitals Trust, a Trustee of Voluntary Services Overseas, Chair of the Afiya Trust, a director of Hampstead Theatre and Chair of the Board of Governors of the Royal College of Nursing Institute.

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The white paper specifically states, " The new grant of British citizenship will not be a barrier, therefore, to those Overseas Territories choosing to become independent of Britain .... Our Overseas Territories are British for as long as they wish to remain British.
According to The Overseas Development Institute, a London-based research establishment, whose findings were released in April 2009 in the paper ' Providing aid in insecure environments: 2009 Update ', the most lethal year in the history of humanitarianism was 2008, in which 122 aid workers were murdered and 260 assaulted.
Working paper 140, Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure, Overseas Development Institute, London, UK
Originally the paper proposed just two categories of British nationality, British citizenship and British Overseas citizenship.
* Briefing paper: The WTO Doha Round Impasse at Overseas Development Institute, London, UK, September 2008
The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development published a paper stating, " Any strategy that enables a person to move from a higher-risk towards the lower end of the continuum, believe, is a valid risk reduction strategy.
He worked for the paper as a Special Correspondent until 1940, when due to the journalistic restrictions of the Second World War he temporarily left the industry to become the press officer for the British Overseas Airways Corporation.
A paper from the Overseas Development Institute offers some indicators to be used in assessing the potential developmental impacts of voluntary carbon offset schemes:

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Tung Chao Yung () better known as 董浩雲,, born 18th of the eighth lunar month in 1912 ; died 15 April 1982 ), also known as C. Y. Tung, was a Chinese shipping magnate, the founder of the Orient Overseas Line ( now Orient Overseas Container Line or OOCL ).
Ross J. Connelly ( b. April 25, 1952 ) is the former Executive Vice President and COO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
On the 22 April 1940 a British Overseas Airways Corporation Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra ( Registration: G-AFKD named Loch Invar ) flying from Perth Airport ( Scotland ) to Heston Aerodrome in London crashed at Loch Lomond, killing all five passengers and crew.
In November 1939, IAL was restructured into three separate companies: British European Airways, British Overseas Airways Corporation ( BOAC ), and British South American Airways ( which merged with BOAC in 1949 ), with the change being made official in 1 April 1940.
Following Portugal's coup of 25 April 1974, the left-wing military regime that replaced the 48-year old Portuguese dictatorship soon decided to grant independence to the five territories administered by Portugal in Africa ( Cabo Verde, Overseas Province of Guinea, São Tomé e Príncipe, Overseas Province of Angola and Overseas Province of Mozambique ).
However, even after the merger, a British Airways European Division, which incorporated the former BEA Mainline operation, the erstwhile Super One-Eleven and Cargo divisions, as well as British Airtours, continued to exist alongside a British Airways Overseas, a British Airways Regional and four other divisions until 1 April 1977 when these were replaced by a unified operating structure organised into a number of departments, including commercial operations, flight operations, engineering, planning, catering and personnel.
On 2 April 1982, the Falklands War began when Argentine forces began the invasion of the British Overseas Territories of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia.
After the Portuguese Colonial War in Portuguese Africa and the April 1974 military coup in Lisbon, the then Portuguese Overseas Province of Mozambique become an independent state.
After the April 1974 military coup in Lisbon, as the Portuguese Overseas Province of Angola's political situation deteriorated and the independence of the territory seemed inevitable, many Moçâmedes-based fishing boats departed to Portugal with entire crews and their families.
The Inman Report, formally known as the Report of the Secretary of State's Advisory Panel on Overseas Security, was a report released in 1985 in response to the Marine barracks bombing and the April 1983 US Embassy bombing in Beirut, Lebanon.
* Overseas: For service on shore in allied or enemy countries of Europe from 6 April 1918 to 11 November 1918.
* Overseas: 6 April 1944
In 1975, after the April 1974 Carnation Revolution in Lisbon, Portugal, the Portuguese Overseas Province of Angola became independent.
This practice is also followed in public cases: when a senior journalist and British National ( Overseas ), Ching Cheong, of The Straits Times from Singapore was detained, accused and imprisoned from April 2005 to February 2008 by the government of People's Republic of China for alleged espionage by providing state secrets to Taiwan, the British government refused to provide consular protection to him despite civil rights groups urging the Foreign Office to do so.
With Wood getting an assist from writer-artists Nick Cuti, Paul Kirchner and Larry Hama, Sally Forth continued in Overseas Weekly until April 22, 1974.
In late April 2005, United Overseas Bank sold 66 out of its Philippine subsidiary's 67 branches to BDO after UOB's Philippine subsidiary is set to rationalize its operations from retail to wholesale banking.
The necessity of creating a general atlas of the Portuguese colonies led Pinheiro Chagas, at the time Overseas Minister, to create, on April 19, 1883, a Commission of Cartography.
Their conflict blew up every few months, until on 16 April 1961 the Overseas Weekly published a front page scandal about General Walker, accusing him of brainwashing his troops with John Birch Society materials, supplied to him by evangelist Billy James Hargis.
His blog for the NYR, Revolution by Latrine, won an award from the Overseas Press Club of America in April 2011.

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