Older people in disasters and humanitarian crises: guidelines for best practice
".... Aimed at helping relief agencies meet the special needs of older people in emergencies. Guidelines give examples of key approaches and actions that could help the humanitarian community reduce t...
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Aged, Health Effects of Disasters, Health Equity, Disasters Emergencies
Broadening the agenda for poverty reduction: Opportunity, empowerment, security
Experience from the 1990s has led to poverty reduction agenda that, in addition to promoting economic growth, addresses ingrained inequalities, institutional failures, social barriers, and other risks...
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Poverty, 32441, Equity, 23927, 50334, Advocacy, Equity, Living Condition
Health, a key to prosperity: success stories in developing countries
It brings informations and orientations about malaria, HIV/AIDS, childhood diseases, tuberculosis, maternal and perinatal conditions.
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Poverty, Developing Countries, Social Conditions, Tuberculosis, Malaria, HIV, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Maternal Welfare, Child Welfare, Communicable Diseases Control
Primera conferencia mundial de la ISEqH
Propósitos de la ISEq:- Promover la equidad en salud y en los servicios de salud a nivel internacional- Facilitar el intercambio científico de conocimientos conceptuales y metodológicos sobre t...
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Equity, Abogacía
Futura estrategia para el desarrollo: Importancia del desarrollo humano
El FMI, el Banco Mundial y los economistas ortodoxos sostienen que los países en desarrollo deben integrarse plenamente en la economía mundial. No obstante, para alcanzar un orden mundial con rostr...
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Developing Countries, Human Development, Economic Development, Abogacía
World Development Report on Poverty 2000/01
The WDR presents itself as a document based on scientific knowledge. The research group has taken this position seriously and treated it as such. In their comments the researchers go beyond the rhetor...
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Poverty, Advocacy, Equity, Living Conditions
Global economic prospects and the developing countries 2001
Technological innovations and the dismantling of trade barriers over the past decade have contributed to an acceleration of growth in global trade. This acceleration has been associated with faster gr...
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27/12/2000
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Commerce, Developing Countries, Models, Economic, Advocacy
Human Rights Watch - World Report 2001
The scope of today's global human rights problems far exceeds the capacity of global institutions to address them. The problem is most acute in the realm of economic globalization, where a disturbing ...
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Human Rights, Advocacy
Local perspectives: foreign aid to the justice sector
Human rights are central to development. Progress cannot be measured in economic terms alone. Moreover, economic progress itself only proceeds in a sustainable way when it is grounded in concern for h...
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Human Rights, Legislation, Health Equity, Advocacy
State of the World's Children 2001
Drawing on reports from the world over, The State of the World's Children 2001 details the daily lives of parents and other caregivers who are striving - in the face of war, poverty and the HIV/AIDS e...
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Poverty, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Children, Advocacy
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