https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Sweden is the second-best country in the world when it comes to policies that help poor nations, according to a ranking released on Monday by a US-based think tank. https://www.thelocal.se/20131118/sweden-second-best-in-the-world-at-aiding-poor-nations-according-to-the-commitment-to-development-index-cdi Mon, 18 Nov 2013 09:46:00 +0100 sweden-second-best-in-the-world-at-aiding-poor-nations-according-to-the-commitment-to-development-index-cdi Sweden said Friday it would donate 25 million kronor ($3.7 million) to the UN refugee agency to help the humanitarian aid effort in Syria. https://www.thelocal.se/20120831/42940 Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:15:00 +0200 42940 Sweden has announced that it will not pay its 1.5 billion kronor ($226 million) contribution to the global fund to fight AIDS unless more is done to ensure the cash does not fall into the wrong hands, a report said Saturday. https://www.thelocal.se/20110123/31586 Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:16:00 +0100 31586 Sweden has topped the rankings of a study evaluating the countries with the world's best policies that benefit the developing world for the second straight year. https://www.thelocal.se/20101112/30176 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:10:00 +0100 30176 Sweden announced on Thursday it will shutter six embassies by the end of the year, while at the same time opening ten new embassies to help carry out its foreign aid programmes. https://www.thelocal.se/20100121/24512 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:07:00 +0100 24512 Sweden plans to donate 180 million kronor ($25.6 million) in financial aid to help Haiti recover from last week’s devastating earthquake, the foreign ministry said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.se/20100119/24454 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:35:00 +0100 24454 Sweden has the best foreign aid policies among the world’s wealthy countries, according to a new ranking. https://www.thelocal.se/20091022/22816 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:33:00 +0200 22816 A prominent Swedish think tank has warned that air cargo companies hired to deliver humanitarian aid and support peacekeeping operations in Africa are also often used to smuggle weapons. https://www.thelocal.se/20090512/19408 Tue, 12 May 2009 15:21:00 +0200 19408 Sweden’s foreign aid may not have any long-term positive effects for developing countries, according to a comprehensive review of Swedish foreign development assistance. https://www.thelocal.se/20090508/19336 Fri, 08 May 2009 18:18:00 +0200 19336 Sweden has agreed to provide 84 million kronor ($10.5 million) in humanitarian aid to Zimbabwe in part to help the country battle its ongoing cholera epidemic. https://www.thelocal.se/20090319/18324 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:44:00 +0100 18324 Dismay over the how several United Nations (UN) organizations have used development aid from Sweden has led the government to propose tougher conditions for allowing aid groups to receive Swedish funding. https://www.thelocal.se/20090309/18076 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:21:00 +0100 18076 Sweden’s foreign assistance programme has been given top marks by an influential American think tank. https://www.thelocal.se/20081205/16158 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:18:00 +0100 16158 The Moderate Party wants to ditch Sweden’s development aid goal of devoting 1 percent of the country’s gross national income (GNI) to foreign assistance. https://www.thelocal.se/20081127/15956 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:49:00 +0100 15956