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Category Archives: Economic and Social Development

Fellows Program Generates Interest Among SIPA Students at Columbia University
Columbia University played host to the first-ever Fellows Program information session on Tuesday, March 25, 2014, to promote research opportunities in the Dominican Republic to Masters and PhD candidate students at the School for International and Public Affairs (SIPA).

GFDD’s Global Roundtable Examines Role of National Tax Systems in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
The August edition of the Global Foundation’s online broadcasting program “Global Roundtable” will have the pleasure to host Michael Lennard, Chief of International Tax Cooperation and Trade in the Financing for Development Office of the United Nations, in the Foundation’s New York office.

Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and FUNGLODE Announce Presentation of El Metro Publication
On January 15, 2013 a report published earlier in 2012 regarding “El Metro and the Impacts of Transportation System Integration in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic,” will be presented by Carl Allen, 2009 GFDD/FUNGLODE Fellow and graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School Master’s Program in Public Policy and Urban Planning.

Former President of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernández, and Current President of GFDD and FUNGLODE opens the Arab-Latin American Forum: Proposals to increase relations between Latin America and the Middle East are Unveiled
The former President of the Dominican Republic, Dr. Leonel Fernández, and current President of GFDD and FUNGLODE delivered the key note address on Sunday during the opening of the International Arab-Latin American Forum, which is taking place in Abu Dhabi with the participation of representatives of several Middle Eastern and Latin American countries.

GFDD and FUNGLODE preferred candidates as strategic partners of the recently created EU-LAC Foundation
GFDD’s Washington, DC director, Asuncion Sanz, represented GFDD and FUNGLODE at the October 14 Senior Officers Meeting (SOM) of the EU-LAC and made a presentation for its candidacy to become one of the two strategic partners for LAC at the EU-LAC Foundation.

GFDD and FUNGLODE Host Conference on Leadership Development around the World
One of the reasons why the West has prevailed over “the Rest” is that two-thirds of the global wealth is concentrated there, argued Professor Ian Morris in a keynote dissertation on Monday, November 7th, in the auditorium of Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE) in Santo Domingo.

GFDD Attends Seminar on Global Transaction Tax Organized by UBUNTU Forum
On September 22, Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) attended the seminar “Innovating in Justice, Innovating in Finance: Time for a Financial and Currency Transaction Tax,” organized by the UBUNTU Forum in collaboration with the Global Progressive Forum and the Center of Concern at the Salvation Army Auditorium in New York City.

GFDD and FUNGLODE Recognize DR’s Leadership Role in Disaster Management
“The Dominican Republic should be proud for having helped hundreds of thousands of Haitians who have suffered due to the earthquake that struck the nation in 2010,” applauded the head of the Americas Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Stephen C. Johnson, at the beginning of the panel titled “The diplomacy of the disaster: local and international responses”, which was held at FUNGLODE headquarters in Santo Domingo.

FUNGLODE and GFDD, will organize a High-Level Conference “The Presence of Africa in the Caribbean, the Antilles and the United States”
Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE) and its sister institution in the United States, Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD), will organize a three-day academic conference titled “The Presence of Africa in the Caribbean, the Antilles and the United States.”