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The Commission for Africa , also known as the Blair Commission for Africa, is an initiative established by the British government to examine and provide impetus for development in Africa. Initiated in Spring 2004, its objectives include the generation of new ideas for development and to deliver implementation of existing international commitements towards Africa.[1] African leaders form a majority of the 17 commissioners. The goal of international development is to alleviate poverty among citizens of developing countries. ...
Africa is the worlds second-largest continent and second most populous after Asia. ...
The report of the Commission was released in March 2005.[2] The publication was welcomed by international agencies, who also urged caution. "The proof of the Africa Commission’s worth will be in the political will and energy it manages to drum up to turn its recommendations into reality," said a spokesperson for Oxfam, "It’s now up to world leaders to rise to the challenge, to take long-overdue action and make this a breakthrough year for Africa."[3]. However, while the Commission and it's report may have had some impact upon the public debate in the UK and to some extent elsewhere on how development in Africa might be accelerated, the report itself quickly faded from view. Even by the time of the G8 summit of world leaders in Gleneagles, Scotland that year, the report itself, which had been spoken of as a sort of blueprint for action by the G8, was rarely mentioned. The modest concessions on Aid increases made at Gleneagles did not nearly meet the demands made in the report for the doubling of Aid, though the G8 countries did largely pledge to do so. After the summit Africa fatigue in the UK and events elsewhere further reduced the profile of the report, and in policy circles it was hobbled by the close association it had with the diplomatic ruptures opened between the UK and most other G8 countries over the UK's bullish stance on Africa in 2005. Oxfam International, founded in 1995, is a confederation of 12 independent, not-for-profit, secular, community-based aid and development organisations who work with local partners in over 100 countries worldwide to reduce poverty, suffering, and injustice. ...
Commissioners
The Right Honourable Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service. ...
The Right Honourable Hilary James Wedgwood Benn (born November 26, 1953) is a British Labour Party Member of Parliament and Secretary of State for International Development Hilary Benn speaking in Oxford, January 2005 Hilary Benn is a fourth generation MP, being the son of former Labour Cabinet Minister Tony Benn. ...
This article is about the British Chancellor of the Exchequer. ...
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Ralph Goodale The Honourable Ralph Edward Goodale, PC , BA , LL.B (born October 5, 1949, in Regina, Saskatchewan) is Canadas current Minister of Finance. ...
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi Legesse (Meles) Zenawi (b. ...
External links - Poverty and Environment Times - current issues
- Commission for Africa website
- "Our Common Interest - Report of the Commission for Africa", 11 March 2005
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