Variations on a theme by South African Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer. Inspired, plagiarized and paraphrased from her novel “A Sport of Nature”, Penguin Books, N.Y. 1988. I am not…
World Bank, Aid Effectiveness Research, Development Research Group (released March 27, 2001).* *: The individual country case studies are not reviewed here. Welcome to a post-mortem of and a critical…
The vast majority of humanity just has the right to see, to hear…and to remain silent (Eduardo Galeano) I am a true convert. I do believe the Human Rights approach…
For readers of the WDR that may have been caught off guard, let me start by assuring you that empowering poor people is NOT about “making the state and social…
*: Re: Health a Precious Asset – Accelerating Follow-up to the World Summit for Social Development – Proposals by the World Health Organization, WHO/HSD/HID/00.1, 2000. ( Dr G.H. Brundtland, referring…
We live in a new age of rights The Challenge: what changes? The Human Rights approach: Some Iron Laws The participation factor in Human Rights The use of indicators in…
I have been re-reading some of the Health Sector Reform (HSR) and health and poverty literature. I have been amazed by the ambiguity, lack of clarity and of a sense…
The Ecology of Food and Nutrition, Vol.42, No.1, Jan/Feb 2003. 1. All agencies of the UN regularly prepare long term plans of action for approval by their respective boards. To…
Dear Editor, IMCI, the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness programme is slowly gaining some recognition in our everyday parlance. We applaud IMCI’s positive aspects, i.e. its attempt to integrate care…
Eduardo Galeano The new millennium is just around the corner. Nothing to take too seriously: After all, the year 2001 of the Christians is the year 1379 of the Muslims,…