Esquel’s July 31 session of the Civil Society Task Force took as its premise: Aid has not meant development. This argument holds that that economic development assistance hasn’t really worked. Aid-dependent countries tend to remain as dependent as they were sixty years ago. Evidently, aid has not meant development. In anticipation of more decades of [...]
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Task Force – May 28th, 2009
The Esquel Group’s Civil Society Task Force met on May 28 at the offices of the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) to explore “The US and Cuba: A Long View of an Obsessive Relationship, 1809-2009 and Beyond.” The discussion centered on the evolution of Cuba’s apparent paranoia toward the US and the US obsession with controlling [...]
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Task Force – February 20, 2009
Discussion of Prof. David A. Crocker’s New Book – Ethics of Global Development: Agency, Capability, and Deliberative Democracy
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Task Force – January 22, 2009
“The Hemispheric Role of the OAS in Pursuing Democratic Citizenship in the Context of the Summit of the Americas” January 22nd, 2009 Organization of American States Washington, DC
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Task Force – December 19, 2008
“The Best America Has to Offer at the Summit of the Americas: Mending Relations and Building Partnerships Through Citizen Diplomacy” December 19th, 2008 Washington, DC
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Task Force – September 19, 2008
“The best-laid plans of banks and men…” (“or how development assistance is finally acknowledging the need to engender a demand for good governance to match the supply and insure the effectiveness of its measures.”)
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