71. ‘Elemental Watson’: The Health Sector Reform’s faulty logic
· Ministries of health around the world claim they have carried out a health sector reform; they argue that by doing so, they have decentralized and devolved the governance of…
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 2001. The big hype The outcome-process riddle Being realistic On…
69. Human Rights Readers
These have now been put separately in this website. You can click on HR Readers in the home page to access them. Claudio
68. Thinking Loud – On Statistics*
*: This is partly plagiarized, but I regrettably lost the reference. Although it is nothing terribly new, I think it is still worth bringing to a higher level of consciousness…
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 Sport of Nature”, Penguin Books, N.Y. 1988. I am not…
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).* *: The individual country case studies are not reviewed here. Welcome to a post-mortem of and a critical…
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 a true convert. I do believe the Human Rights approach…
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 poor people is NOT about “making the state and social…
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 World Health Organization, WHO/HSD/HID/00.1, 2000. ( Dr G.H. Brundtland, referring…
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 participation factor in Human Rights The use of indicators in…