Shifting Paradigm: How the BRICs are reshaping global health and development
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- Written by GHSi
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The report was released in the lead-up to the 4th BRICS Summit (28-29 March, New Delhi). It takes an in-depth look at the increasingly important roles Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are playing to advance health and development in the world's poorest countries.
There is an urgent need for new resources and innovation in global health, and the world is looking to the BRICS and other emerging economies for greater leadership in these areas. As these countries invest more in global health and R&D, it is clear that their approaches differ from those of traditional donors and are shaped by their own experiences, philosophies and interests. It is also clear that the BRICS and other emerging economies will play an increasingly important role in driving access to new health technologies and services.
Another world is possible for poor women
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- Written by Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign
- Category: Analysis
This spring, four American cities are gearing up to host regional meetings of the World Court of Women on Poverty in the U.S. Founded by Tunisian activist Corinne Kumar, the World Courts of Women (WCW) are public hearings featuring testimonies of survival and resistance from people on the margins. Since 1992, there have been 37 Courts in cities around the world, including the International Court of Women on Crimes Related to Population Policies in Cairo, Egypt in 1994; the World Court of Women against War, for Peace in Cape Town, South Africa in 2001; and the World Court of Women on U.S. War Crimes in Mumbai, India in 2004.
21 issues for the 21st century
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- Written by UNEP
- Category: Analysis
A top priority list of emerging environmental issues with options for action.
Delhi push for ‘IMF’ of poor
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- Written by Archis Mohan
- Category: Analysis
An Indian proposal to explore whether the developing world can set up its own alternative to the World Bank or International Monetary Fund (IMF) is on its way to a feasibility test.
The idea, described by international observers as a push for a world banking revolution, is to be discussed by the Brics nations later this month following a thumbs-up from China yesterday.
The economic consequences of a Financial Transaction Tax
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- Written by Avinash Persaud
- Category: Analysis
A 0,1 % tax does not usher in a nuclear winter!
The Fallacies of Green Growth
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- Written by UNCTAD
- Category: Analysis
A new UNCTAD Discussion Paper (No. 205) reviews the fallacies of green growth in coping with climate change and the implications for development space. Drawing on ample empirical data and examples, the paper analyses the environmental effectiveness, economic efficiency and social-political acceptability of the main elements in the green growth toolbox. The key results of the analysis are as follows:
Do we still need development goals?
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- Written by Charles Kenny
- Category: Analysis
More of the same?
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The Inequality Trap
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- Written by Kemal Dervis
- Category: Analysis
(From Social Europe Journal)
As evidence mounts that income inequality is increasing in many parts of the world, the problem has received growing attention from academics and policymakers. In the United States, for example, the income share of the top 1% of the population has more than doubled since the late 1970’s, from about 8% of annual GDP to more than 20% recently, a level not reached since the 1920’s.
Collateral damage: How the UK government plans to water down anti-tax haven rules
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- Written by ActionAidUK
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(From Eurodad)
A huge new tax loophole specifically for multinational companies will be hidden in the UK Chancellor’s new budget due to be released on 21 March. This move bizarrely comes at a time when polling shows that 79% of the British population thinks that the government is not doing enough to tackle tax avoidance.
Read more: Collateral damage: How the UK government plans to water down anti-tax haven rules
Elites Loot Africa While Foreign Debt Mounts
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- Written by J. Boyce & L. Ndikumana
- Category: Analysis
(From Global Financial Integrity)
It was an African equivalent of stealing the Brooklyn Bridge, and for four years, nobody noticed. From 2007 to 2010, $32 billion in public funds went missing from Angola. The unexplained money outflow from sub-Saharan Africa’s second largest oil exporter was revealed in a December International Monetary Fund report, which pegged the loss as equivalent to one-quarter of the country’s GDP.
The poverty of poverty statistics
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- Category: Analysis
Statistics are very useful, and we know you can use them in every way you like. Poverty statistics are extremely useful, because you can show how much progress is being made in the world with development policies. You can also use them to show how disastrous neoliberal globalisation is. If more than one billion people, or 22 % of the world population, is unable to survive, there must be something very wrong with the economies and societies in which they live.
