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Who assures international development?

20th September 2006 by Tim Kitchin

The Clinton Global Initiative is emerging as a purposeful counterpoint to WEF in influencing the operating models of international development.

The Annual gathering this week (20-22 September) is expected to yield a number of new commitments to alleviate poverty and ill-health, but which will actually work.

Standards will doubtless play a key role in aligning the activities of these increasingly complex global alliances, but the ‘assurance’ of these complex arrangements remains desparately unclear…

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WEF, development, CGI, standards, CSR, verification, blogs, assurance, trust

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