Deeds not words

Financing for Development : The Gap between Words and Deeds since

The Monterrey Consensus agreed at the UN summit on Financing for Development in 2002 promised a breakthrough in terms of donor generosity, aid effectiveness and new means of financing. However, the development orientation of world leaders proved to be short-lived. This is even though our evaluation reveals progress since Monterrey in some areas, notably debt relief and private (FDI) flows. Call...

Old Dad Chiro: his thoughts, words, and deeds

OBJECTIVE This article offers the author's opinions about some of the thoughts, words, and deeds of the profession's founder, Daniel David Palmer. DISCUSSION Reviewing D.D. Palmer's writings is challenging because he was the discoverer and founder of a developing profession and therefore his thoughts and words were rapidly evolving. Statements made by Palmer without judicious consideration of...

Words or deeds? Choosing what to know about others

Social cooperation often relies on individuals’ spontaneous norm obedience when there is no punishment for violation or reward for compliance. However, people do not consistently follow pro-social norms. Previous studies have suggested that an individual’s tendency toward norm conformity is affected by empirical information (i.e. what others did or would do in a similar situation) as well as by...

By Words and Deeds: Racial Steering by Real Estate Agents in the U.S. in 2000

EU territory and policy-making: from words to deeds to promote policy integration

This paper addresses recent developments in the area of EU territorial cohesion. A first section is dedicated to the emergence of the place-based approach as a new paradigm of the EU cohesion policy, and the subsequent need for vertical, horizontal and territorial integration of policies. In a second step, progress recently made in the framework of the EU Territorial Agenda revision process tow...