G20 summit’s Seoul Development Consensus: please comment

UPDATE: OK I give up, I’ll be the bad guy again (see end of post)

I present selections of?the text of the Seoul Development Consensus for Shared Growth?without comment, inviting instead the readers to?comment:

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Be economic-growth oriented and consistent with the?G20 Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth

Prioritize actions that tackle global or regional systemic issues

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Differentiate, yet complement existing development efforts, avoiding duplication

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Focus on feasible, practical and accountable measures to address clearly articulated problems

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In close consultation with our developing country and LIC partners, as well as relevant international and regional organizations with development expertise, we have also identified nine areas, or “key pillars,” where we believe action and reform are most critical to ensure inclusive and sustainable economic growth and resilience in developing countries and LICs. These areas are: infrastructure, private investment and job creation, human resource development, trade, financial inclusion, growth with resilience, food security, domestic resource mobilization, and knowledge sharing. Creating optimal conditions for strong, sustainable and resilient economic growth in developing countries will require reform and transformation across each of these interlinked and mutually reinforcing key pillars.

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UPDATE: OK I think I miscalculated, the Seoul Consensus is so completely free of substance that I couldn’t get much comment (thanks to the valiant souls below who tried).?

So it’s my bitter lot in life to play the bad guy who says the obvious nasty things, like:

This summit set the lowest possible expectations on development, and then heroically failed to meet them.?

Did it occur to any of the G20 sherpas that it?would have been better to say, “we have nothing new on development” than to produce such vacuous babble then actually goes backward even from the dismally modest record of previous summits?

I guess the main puzzle is why the Koreans let themselves be insulted by having this Nothingness named after Seoul.

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More respect for the President, please!

President Barack Obama began his term with the highest of braces in the press. Is purely and simply host TV Chris Matthews, felt a tingling go up and down his leg that Mr. Obama spoke. From Newsweek Evan Thomas said Obama oscillated on nations, like"a God". All too soon, however, the President has crashed as Icarus in the Greek legend. Young Icarus flew too close to the Sun and wax who joined her homemade melted wings feathers. Icarus has plunged into the sea. Obama President may have become too close to these lights wears.

He feels himself. "They talk about me as I am a dog," complained recently. In fact, the President is false. Americans love their dogs.Just remember the scandal that erupted when Lyndon b. Johnson has lifted its beagles by their oreilles.américains liked these beagles much more that they liked LBJ.

This campaign is to show the worst in some of the criticism of Mr. Obama.I want to say: enough! Let's show some respect for the President of the United States more. He went too far when a candidate for Governor of one of our States publicly tell the President that he could take his approval and "coarse."

Whatever you say? allait the President really endorse a Republican? not at all. The candidate who has said the Commander in Chief to take his work visa and coarse was none other than Frank Caprio, Democrat for Rhode Island Governor candidate.

It seems the fact President campaign in the State of the ocean, but is not ostensibly kissing

Mr. Caprio. Instead, the President non-visa will be considered as a blessing in disguise for the former Republican senator Lincoln Chafee. Chafee runs for independent Governor.

Mr. Obama continues to have a satisfaction rate in Rhode Island - if not in the foyer of Caprio. Rhode Island is one of the few States where local candidates are happy to be seen with the embattled President.

How it is on the campaign trail?Moreover, local candidates seem happy to former President Bill Clinton campaign for them.They would rather a former President challenged, that transformed the process of rehabilitation in a sale of firearms in his final days in Office.Is - this any person recalls Marc Rich?Clinton gave him a pardon to the oil with Saddam Hussein.Même TIME magazine cited the Marc Rich pardon among the ten most scandalous pardons in the history of our country.Even candidates prefer to hug Bill Clinton on the platform to be hugged by Barack Obama.

Whoever said the White House in 2000? Bill Clinton has survived the indictments and decided to throw a party sumptuous last for the bicentenary of the House of the Président.Il invited the famous "Bill friends" room is for a cérémonie.Certains them had been authorized to rent bedroom Lincoln for fêtes.Espérons he did not rent at the time.

The late Mary McGrory describes the scene under bright lustre and hundreds more robust followers Bill Clinton crammed into the room mousseux.Ils were there to hear the author David McCullough read his biography bestseller John Adams.Le second Bush was the first to live in the White House.

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Exercise of reader: Please explain "aid fungibility" to our Secretary of State

Update: OK I finally define fungibility (see the end of the post). This is the brothels.

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United States, said Friday it has provided assistance for members of Pakistan in the next five years.

The Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made the announcement in Washington...

Announcing using, Mrs. Clinton has not discussed the administration moves to stop the funding of certain elements of the Pakistani army killed unarmed prisoners and civilians.

Thursday, senior and responsible for the Congress said that administration planned Obama cut funds to these units.

Leave today's NYT

T or F: aid to the Pakistani army while you "financing of certain elements of the judgment in" killing civilians is equivalent to the increase in aid to these same "certain elements."

Update: OK, OK, I'll tell you guys really I to define "aid fungibility.Here is the official definition given by the World Bank Chief Economist in the 1950s:

This is when we think we are going to finance a powerhouse, and we are really going to finance a House of prostitution.

Support interchangeability is when the donor gives to the Government for Good Thing and refused to fund the Bad Thing b.Le reduced intelligent Government then its own spending on Good Thing that one with the help of, this total (donor + Government) expenditure on A Good Thing is inchangé.Le Government uses his savings on A spend more on Bad Thing b.Donc de facto (relative to the pre - aid situation), the donor has really no effect on the a and did increase the spending of Bad Thing b.

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