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Inter Press Service: When the international community was struggling to ward off a potential decline in development aid in early 2000, it came up with a novel idea: a proposal for "new and innovative sources of financing", including a tax on airline tickets and a levy on foreign exchange transactions.
The funding, mostly from the tax alone, first proposed at the 2002 U.N. conference on Financing for Development, has already generated over 11.7 billion dollars, according to the World Bank.
And now, the Swedish government......
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Sweden to Fund Innovations in Water Sector
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 29th, 2012
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