1. The ‘chronic emergency’ situation in the health, nutrition, education and other service sectors in an important number of the developing countries only sporadically. becomes a ‘loud emergency’. However, if…
1. Equality in health means equal access for equal need. 2. Near-zero-priced public services for the very poor is an essential public policy towards equity. 3. Government intervention in the…
SCN News, No.25, Gva., 2002. This is one more post-mortem to the partially-called-off UNICEF McDonalds (public-private) partnership to which so many of us reacted. I hesitate a bit philosophising about…
Introduction The background The concept of Human Rights in health and why it is used Experiences from some NGOs already using the Equity/Human Rights approach Practical ways for NGOs to…
· 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…
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…
These have now been put separately in this website. You can click on HR Readers in the home page to access them. Claudio
*: 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…
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…