Communities –and not academics setting cut-off points– are the best qualified to identify the poor among themselves thus judging relative…
The availability and allocation of budgetary resources says a lot about whether, how, and to what extent a government is…
People that happen to be poor need jobs and a livelihood; to agonize about inequality is, for them, a luxury.…
1. Public sector interventions impinge on a vast array of human rights issues. Quite predictably, these interventions reflect the distribution…
Disclaimer: i) The empowerment of some entails the dis-empowerment of others –usually the current holders of power. ii) Empowering people…
1. Ministries of health around the world claim they have carried out ‘a’ health sector reform; they argue that by…
-Injustice is a social disease that needs to be combated with the force of an epidemic. -We have no other…
-Ignoring human rights considerations carries a huge cost; one of them is an inability to understand our world. (Vicente Navarro)…
It is not incumbent upon you to finish the task, but neither are you free to absolve yourself from it.…
Development has become hostage to finance. Finance has to serve development and not, as it is presently, the other way…