70. Aiming at the Target: What’s Left for the Devil to Advocate?
SOME THOUGHTS ON THE SETTING OF GOALS AND TARGETS: HAVE THEY HELPED PROGRESS OR NOT? SCN News, No.22, Gva., July…
69. Human Rights Readers
These have now been put separately in this website. You can click on HR Readers in the home page to…
68. Thinking Loud – On Statistics*
*: This is partly plagiarized, but I regrettably lost the reference. Although it is nothing terribly new, I think it…
67. On Morality, Freedom, Choices, Justice and the Need for People’s Power
Variations on a theme by South African Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer. Inspired, plagiarized and paraphrased from her novel “A…
66. Aid and Reform in Africa: Lessons from Ten Case Studies, Final Report (Book Review)
World Bank, Aid Effectiveness Research, Development Research Group (released March 27, 2001).* [www.worldbank.org/research/aid/africa/release/aid.htm] *: The individual country case studies are…
65. Human Rights or the Importance of Being Earnest: A Personal Account
The vast majority of humanity just has the right to see, to hear…and to remain silent (Eduardo Galeano) I am…
64. The WB’s World Development Report 2000/2001 or the Trivialization of the Concept of “Empowerment”
For readers of the WDR that may have been caught off guard, let me start by assuring you that empowering…
63. Health a Precious Asset, But Not ‘A New and Potentially Powerful Exit Route from Poverty’. *
*: Re: Health a Precious Asset – Accelerating Follow-up to the World Summit for Social Development – Proposals by the…
62. What does the New UN Human Rights Approach Bring to the Struggle of the Poor?
We live in a new age of rights The Challenge: what changes? The Human Rights approach: Some Iron Laws The…
61. On Health Sector Reform, Health, Poverty and Other Herbs
I have been re-reading some of the Health Sector Reform (HSR) and health and poverty literature. I have been amazed…