And in recent decades, a lot of the funding for shop class has gone away entirely.

So we bail them out with public funds used for better education for kids, feeding the poor, they gave that money to the banks and the banks gave it to their friends.

With the significance being these funds have come in as a QT capital, not as grant or as philanthropy.

The recipient of funding from the Global Fund with regard to Myanmar is not the Government but the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

In turn, that requires political will to negotiate multilateral agreements for long term strategies that open the way for new financing.

Also, the following issues were recognized as the basis for good practices in statistics the coordination of data requests needs to be improved IT needs to be strengthened to improve transparency and to enhance communication international agencies should rely more heavily on official statistics produced by national statistical offices for their data needs and coordination by donors, bilateral and United Nations agencies in countries should be improved.

It would bring a scaling up in financial transfers to poor countries, thus ensuring that human development programs are not constrained by the lack of financing.

In the past three years, security standards at European ports and airports have been strengthened, biometric passports have been introduced, and terrorist financing targeted.

Organizational autonomy assists in this process, just as continuity and security of core funding is essential for successful strategies on addressing violence against women (Vanuatu Women's Centre, 2003).

In such a mechanism, Europeans should allocate funds not only from within the Barcelona process and the European Investment Bank, but also from the states most concerned France, Italy, and Spain.

Nevertheless, many challenges remain for enhancing the contribution of microfinance initiatives, especially for the sustainability of microfinance and for the qualitative and quantitative assessment of the impact of microfinance on poverty.

37. We call for the further elaboration of innovative financing mechanism for development, including public private partnership for increased investments targeted at development, debt swap for MDGs, and micro finance scheme.

From a financial point of view, the embargo played no small part in Cuba being designated as high risk country, with the adverse economic impact being evaluated at 72.2 million, as a result of the difficulty in gaining access to external financing.

Concerns also exist regarding the limited role of microfinance institutions to address the problem of the poorest of the poor inasmuch as the availability of credit seems to help mostly those with the spirit of entrepreneurship.

Microfinance institutions in South Asia have experimented with various microfinance schemes, such as provision of credit and savings programmes targeting poor women, mobilization of voluntary savings, promotion of self help groups and involvement of private investment in microfinance.

The new initiative calls for all member states to harmonize their economic, fiscal, and monetary policies completely, beginning with currency convertibility and followed by exchange rate unification and, finally, a common currency. Several currencies have attained some measure of regional convertibility, which should encourage monetary harmonization and promote intraregional trade, as countries trade flows shift from partners that require payment in foreign currency.

Overall trade flows in southern Africa fell from 131.1 billion in 2002 to 112.3 billion in 2003, with South Africa one of only three countries in the region that recorded current account surpluses accounting for 65 of the total.