The Americans would prefer to vote in October for a new consensus-seeking conference to be held early next year along the lines of the one just concluded in effect, kicking the can down the road.
What is open to question is how effective that document will be given the struggle to build consensus ahead of the conference.
Papa Salif Sow, of Dakar University in Senegal, told the IAS conference that the consensus of studies in Africa over the past few years was that 80-85% of people took their drugs exactly as prescribed.
Unable to reach consensus on what the term meant, the conference left it undefined.
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They contend that, pursuant to agreed Millennium Development Goals contained in the Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development (dubbed the "the Monterrey Consensus"), the United States and other developed nations are obliged to provide 0.7 percent of their gross national income in foreign aid (also known as Official Development Assistance or ODA).
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Small wonder that analysts are easily manipulated into groupthink, guided by conference calls and investor relations people, rarely stepping out of the earnings consensus.
At a conference of academics, bankers and officials in New York this week, a consensus emerged that the Basle approach is fundamentally flawed.
In the post-summit press conference, Obama seemed to accept the left's critique of "the Washington consensus" which in fact only puts forth what have historically been U.S. aims for the region.
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New York: United Nations, that in preparation for the United Nations Financing for Development (FfD) world conference concluded, "there is a genuine need to establish, by international consensus, stable and contractual new sources of multilateral finance, " to wit, international taxes and fees.
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