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"Fatal Indifference: The G8, Africa, and Global Health" /
The G8 (the United States, England, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Russia, the European Union, and Canada) represents the major political driver of contemporary globalization. It is also the most powerful political force behind the multilateral institutions that are shaping global economic practice...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Acronyms -- A Note on Country Designation -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Why a Focus on the G8? -- The Report Card Project -- Outline of the Book -- Limitations of the Analysis -- Chapter One: Globalization, Health and Development: The Right Prescription? -- Introduction -- Contemporary Globalization -- Globalization, Health and Development: Competing Arguments, Conflicting Evidence -- A Framework for Understanding Globalization's Impacts on Health -- Poverty and Income Inequality | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The Environment and Sustainable DevelopmentChapter Two: Macroeconomic Policy, Structural Adjustment and Debt Relief -- Introduction -- 'Debt Crises' and Structural Adjustment -- The Need for Debt Relief and the HIPC Initiative -- HIPC Conditionally: Are PRSPs Just the Reincarnation of Structural Adjustment? -- Poverty Reduction and Foreign Direct Investment -- International Finance, Tax Competition and Offshore Financial Centers -- Summary: Chapter Two -- Chapter Three: Health and Health Systems -- Introduction | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and MalariaEssential Health Interventions as Global Public Goods -- Health System Infrastructure -- G8 Official Development Assistance to Health-Systems Development -- The Brain Drain -- Access to Essential Medicines -- Macroeconomic Policies and Health Care -- Privatization, Liberalization and GATS -- Tobacco Control: Deadly Silence from the G8 -- Summary: Chapter Three -- Chapter Four: Education -- Introduction -- Education for All and the Dakar Framework for Action -- Policy Challenges, G8 Responses | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Summary: Chapter FourChapter Five: Nutrition, Food Security and Biotechnology -- Introduction -- Nutrition and Food Security -- G7 ODA to Agriculture -- Child Malnutrition, Food Security and Africa -- Biotechnology and Food Security -- Agricultural Exports and Food Security -- Food Security: An Epilogue -- Summary: Chapter Five -- Chapter Six: Official Development Assistance -- Introduction -- Trends in G7 Official Development Assistance -- ODA in the Near Future -- The Politics of Aid -- Summary: Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven: Trade and Market Access | |
| 505 | 8 | |a IntroductionImproving Market Access -- Protected and Subsidized Agriculture -- Market Access: Necessary but Not Sufficient -- WTO Participation -- Market Liberalization and Changes in Taxation -- Summary: Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight: Environment -- Introduction -- Drinking Water and Sanitation -- Privatization, Water and GATS -- Environmental Assessments of ECA Activities -- Commitments on Multilateral Environmental Agreements -- Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy -- Johannesburg and the Retreat from Sustainable Development | |
| 520 | |a The G8 (the United States, England, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Russia, the European Union, and Canada) represents the major political driver of contemporary globalization. It is also the most powerful political force behind the multilateral institutions that are shaping global economic practice and governance. The aid, trade, and investment policies and practices of G8 member nations largely shape the development possibilities of poorer countries around the world. This book provides a 'report card' of commitments over the past three G8 summits (1999, 2000, and 2001) with a preliminary ass. | ||
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| 610 | 2 | 0 | |a Group of Eight (Organization) |
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| 650 | 0 | |a International economic relations. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Economic policy |x International cooperation. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Globalization |x Health aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World health. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Africa |x Economic conditions. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Medical care. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a International cooperation. | |
| 650 | 2 | |a Developing Countries | |
| 650 | 2 | |a Developed Countries | |
| 650 | 1 | 2 | |a Global Health |
| 650 | 2 | 2 | |a Delivery of Health Care |
| 650 | 2 | 2 | |a International Cooperation |
| 650 | 2 | |a Patient Care | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Politique économique |x Coopération internationale. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Santé mondiale. | |
| 651 | 6 | |a Afrique |x Conditions économiques. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Prestation de soins. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Coopération internationale. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Soins médicaux. | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a International cooperation |2 fast | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a Economic policy |x International cooperation |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Globalization |x Health aspects |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a International economic relations |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a World health |2 fast | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Africa |2 fast |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkHrMyfHC67yqRTycbrv3 | |
| 710 | 2 | |a International Development Research Centre (Canada) | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a Labonte, Ronald. |t Fatal Indifference : The G8, Africa, and Global Health. |d Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, ©1900 |z 9781919713847 |
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