Development and Cooperation


	Contributions from the Column Facts and trends AIDS: auditors criticise Bush administration WTO disapproves of EU sugar subsidies Demobilisation in Afghanistan a success Additional funds for German civil peace service Kemal Dervis next head of UNDP New World Bank data on governance Monetary fund for Asia under preparation New leaders for WTO and UNCTAD Canada concentrates development aid The failure of Plan Colombia 06/2005		Kemal Dervis next head of UNDP Kemal Dervis, a former member of the Turkish cabinet, will become the Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP). The UN General Assembly unanimously elected the former World Bank official in May. In August, Dervis will replace Mark Malloch Brown, who was appointed as the Secretary General’s chief of staff earlier this year. Dervis worked for the World Bank for 22 years in roles including that of Vice President for North Africa and the Near East. In 2001, then Turkish Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit, brought him into his cabinet as the Minister for Economic Affairs. Dervis resigned from this post a year later. The social democrat is the first UNDP leader who does not come from a donor country. (ell)