Communities –and not academics setting cut-off points– are the best qualified to identify the poor among themselves thus judging relative poverty. 1. In our work in health, we see equality…
The availability and allocation of budgetary resources says a lot about whether, how, and to what extent a government is committed and determined to implement its disparity reduction and thus…
People that happen to be poor need jobs and a livelihood; to agonize about inequality is, for them, a luxury. (M. Klein, World Bank) 1. Both Structural Adjustment and the…
1. Public sector interventions impinge on a vast array of human rights issues. Quite predictably, these interventions reflect the distribution of power in our societies. Therefore, changes have systematically benefited…
Disclaimer: i) The empowerment of some entails the dis-empowerment of others –usually the current holders of power. ii) Empowering people can well trigger repressive actions by these current holders of…
1. 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…
-Injustice is a social disease that needs to be combated with the force of an epidemic. -We have no other world except this one; it is difficult to imagine improving…
-Ignoring human rights considerations carries a huge cost; one of them is an inability to understand our world. (Vicente Navarro) -The human rights situation is not like a photograph in…
It is not incumbent upon you to finish the task, but neither are you free to absolve yourself from it. Abraham Lincoln said: The probability that we may fail in…
Development has become hostage to finance. Finance has to serve development and not, as it is presently, the other way around. (Yash Tandon) 1. Under neoliberalism, the prevailing development paradigm…