NATIONAL REPORTS
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- Afghanistan: More and better aid is imperative
- Argentina: Financial and taxation justice: a historic debt
- Armenia: Gender equality: history must be honoured
- Bahrain: Much to be done
- Bangladesh: Financing the MDGs: expectations and reality
- Benin: No development without aid
- Bolivia: The wealth does not reach the people
- Brazil: Clouds on the horizon
- Bulgaria: Finance for development in times of crisis
- Cameroon: Aid must be more efficiently managed
- Canada: Post-crisis development strategy: “business as usual”
- Central African Republic: Many obstacles and slow progress
- Chile: No sustainable development without fair taxation
- Colombia: Insufficient policies
- Costa Rica: Health for all: a difficult target to attain
- Croatia: An uncertain scenario
- Cyprus: An opportunity for a “social shift”
- Czech Republic: Further cutbacks to the Welfare State
- Egypt: The rough road to the Millennium Development Goals
- El Salvador: Vulnerability and violence, reflections of poverty
- Eritrea: Held hostage by its own Government
- Finland: Aid and economic relations still lagging behind people’s welfare
- France: Reviving the original MDGs spirit
- Germany: Neglecting the poor and the environment
- Ghana: MDGs remain elusive
- Guatemala: Food security: the challenge for effective aid
- Honduras: Far from the MDGs but near a strong people’s movement
- Hungary: Neoliberal’s best student is the weakest link in the crisis
- India: Emerging trends in financing for development
- Indonesia: More is needed
- Iraq: Persistent gender-based violence an obstacle to development and peace
- Italy: The dismantling of development cooperation
- Kenya: Victim of skewed power relations
- Lebanon: A new set of goals is needed
- Malaysia: Some progress, multiple challenges
- Malta: Measuring the real commitment to development aid
- Mexico: Unequal progress
- Moldova: Critical times
- Morocco: Not enough aid and very slow progress
- Myanmar: No development without justice: denouncing the democratic farce
- Nepal: The need for a new development program
- Nicaragua: The (limited) time of the so-called “demographic bonus”
- Nigeria: The quest for foreign direct investment
- Paraguay: Growth should follow social justice
- Peru: More money but the same social injustice
- Poland: Foreign assistance lacks basic definitions
- Portugal: Assistance for development must increase and improve
- Senegal: More challenges than progress
- Serbia: No strategy to counter economic and social insecurity
- Slovakia: The tiger is limping
- Slovenia: The MDGs: a very distant target
- Somalia: At the mercy of pirates
- Spain: At the mercy of the speculators
- Suriname: Big challenges ahead
- Switzerland: Stagnating ODA and fading attention to poverty
- Tanzania: MDGs: an under-funded crusade
- Thailand: Time to rethink industrial development
- Uganda: Information and communication technologies: route to development?
- United States of America: Bold action needed to put people first
- Uruguay: Social policies need fine tuning
- Venezuela: A new way to make the same mistakes
- West Bank and Gaza: The mirage of economic growth
- Yemen: Oil is not enough
- Zambia: Foreign direct investment and the fulfillment of key rights
National Reports