THE abstract paper to the International Seminar at Delhi on "Engaging with Resurgent Africa"
This is abstract paper by Professor Yash Tandon, Executive Director of the South Centre to the International Seminar at Delhi, 20-21 November on "Engaging with Resurgent Africa" organised by Observer Research Foundation whose Executive Director is Dilip Lahiri, former Ambassador of India to France & Spain.
Title: THE PRINCIPLES AND MODALITIES OF EU-INDIA COOPERATION ON AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT
Europe had enlisted the services of the Indians in the colonization of Africa. From this the Europeans overwhelmingly benefitted out of the appropriation of Africa’s natural wealth and cheap labour. The Indians, although a subset of the exploited, benefitted partially as “middle agents”. At the lowest end of the “development” chain, were the Africans. Africa’s plunder was all the more cruel because it deprived Africans the time and the opportunity to develop themselves by their own means and institutions. This lies at the root of many of Africa’s present challenges...
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A speech presented at Mani tese, italy: FOOD CRISIS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS AND THE NEED FOR ALTERNATIVE PARADIGM
This speech is made by Professor Yash Tandon, Executive Director of the South Centre, for the Mani Tase at 1, November, 2008,
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How the food crisis is affecting the poorest countries
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Root of the problem lies in the global system of production and Exchange
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What needs to be done
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Conclusion: Human rights and the principle of equity demands the provision of safe drinking water, food security, basic sanitation, energy, universal education, health care, housing and social protection for the poor everywhere, and for the poor nations. This requires a new agricultural and food production system that is based on building the capacity of small farmers at the national and regional levels to produce food for the nation and the region, and that is "decoupled" from the global system of financialised capitalism and domination of banks, speculators, and global food chains.
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a speech made at the free world foundation, nowway: WHY IS AID COUNTER PRODUCTIVE TO DEVELOPMENT
This speech is made by Professor Yash Tandon, Executive Director of the South Centre, for the the Freedom of Expression Foundation, Norway on 3 October 2008
Why is Aid Counter Productive to Development?
The conceptual starting point is not aid but development. Growth, admittedly, is an important aspect of development. But growth is not the same as development. Growth is essentially an economistic concept, reduced in the literature to a few economic indices such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP), or in the language of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to certain statistical measurements. What is lacking in these definitions are two important concepts, namely, self empowerment, and freedom from imperial control. Development essentially is “a long democratic process that starts from within, where people participate in the decisions that affect their lives, without imperial interference from outside, and aimed at improving the lives of the people and realisation of the potential for self support, free from fear of want and political, economic and social exploitation”.
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The STATEMENT AT THE 15TH MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE OF THE NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT, TEHERAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
The statement is presented by Professor Yash Tandon, Executive Director of the South Centre, at the 15th Ministerial Conference on the Non-Aligned Movement, Teheran, Islamic Republic of Iran on 27-30 July 2008.
The South Centre is an intergovernmental think tank of the developing countries established in 1995 with its headquarters in Geneva. It has grown out of the work and experience of the South Commission, and from recognition of the need for enhanced South-South co-operation. Presently, the South Centre has 51 member states. However, the Centre provides support to all the countries of the South including G77 and China, the Non-Aligned Movement, G24 and other international organisations of the South, in the form of critical analysis, capacity building, and policy advice...
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the opening statement of the executive director on high level north-south dialogue on food and energy security, geneva
The opening speech presented by Dr Yash Tandon, the Executive Director of South Centre, on the High Level North-South Dialogue on Food and Energy Security, which is a seminar to access the underlying causes and policy dilemmas related the energy security, food security, and livelihood security and multilateral responses required to correct these systemic issues.
This Dialogue is co-sponsored by the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Indonesia to the United Nations and other international organizations based in Geneva.Date: 17 June 2008;
Moderators: Ambassador Dacio Castillo, Permanent Representative of Honduras to the WTO;
Ambassador Jean Feyder, Permanent Representative of Luxembourg to the UN;
Speakers from partner organisations: FAO, UNCTAD, IPCC, Oxfam, WTO and IATP.
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[dONOR HARMONISATION] SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT
Written by Dr. Yash Tandon, Executive Director of the South Centre, the article appeared online at the website of the Development & Cooperation Magazine (Inwent and German Foreign Affairs Ministry), and print version available on July Issue.
http://www.inwent.org/ez/articles/074408/index.en.shtml
While the governments of rich nations want to streamline their global-development efforts in the OECD context, those of many developing countries are less enthusiastic. Some experts even view the Paris Declaration of Aid Effectiveness as a document of new colonialist aspirations, and doubt the OECD High Level Forum in Accra in September will achieve much good. [ By Yash Tandon ] ...June 2008
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the PARIS DECLARATION AND AID EFFECTIVENESS
Drafted by Dr. Yash Tandon, Executive Director of the South Centre on May 12, 2008, also circulated in Pambazuka News on June 10, 2008
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/48634
The Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness will be held this September in Accra. But is aid effectiveness a mirage? Yash Tandon dissects the Paris Declaration in relation to aid effectiveness and reaches the conclusion that "under the pretext of making aid more effective, the aid effectiveness project is a form of collective colonialism by Northern donors of those Southern countries that, through weakness, vulnerability or psychological dependency, allow themselves to be subjected to it at the Accra conference in September." But all is not lost and he also offers a way out...
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the issue of coherence: its relevance and significance from the perspective of the south
This report is made by Dr. Yash Tandon, Executive Director of South Centre on 31 May 2008. In which he illustrated his ideas in incoherence arise from conceptual misunderstanding and practice varied with "development" policy objectives, the latter is sub-explained in 3 areas, those are, Aid, Trade and Investment This brief report is in response to the request made by the chairman of the Norwegian Government's Committee on Coherence in Development Policy in his letter of 24 April 2008, for advice "on which policy areas that are most crucial from your point of view and on what Norway should prioritize politically in national and international policy arenas?"...
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The National Project and the Role of the Engaged Intellectual of the South
Keynote speech delivered by Dr. Yash Tandon, Executive Director of the South Centre, in honour of Professor Norman Girvan at the IXth Annual Conference of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), Kingston, Jamaica, 26 March 2008.
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Regionalism, the Salvation for Poor Countries
Interview of Yash Tandon, Executive Director of the South Centre, by Michel Egger, Alliance Sud News in April 2007 ... June 2007
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Building a Community of Mutual Trust and Tolerance
The following are the highlights of the speaking points by the Executive Director of the South Centre, Dr. Yash Tandon, at the annual symposium of the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development in Basel on 8 December, 2006. The theme of the symposium was Development Cooperation at a Crossroads: Dead End or New Horizons? Dr. Tandon’s presentation was entitled Aid in the Context of North-South Relations: A Southern Voice on (Non-) Development ... January 2007
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Statement of the South Centre on the Report of the UNCTAD Panel of Eminent Persons on "Enhancing the Development Role and Impact of UNCTAD"
Statement delivered by Prof. Yash Tandon, Executive Director, of the South Centre, at the 40th executive session of the UNCTAD Trade and Development Board called to discuss the Report of the Panel of Eminent Persons on 14 December 2006 ... December 2006
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Reform or Transformation? End of an Era and Beginning of a New One
Executive Director Yash Tandon's speech delivered at the final plenary session of the CSI-ICTU-Ubuntu International Conference on the Reform of International Institutions, held at the International Labour Organization in Geneva, from 20-21 November 2006 ...November 2006
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