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Fri, 2009-02-20 21:37 — admin

The mission of the Epoch B Working Group is to identify and implement solutions to achieving resilience and sustainability in human populations on earth.

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Evaluation and Social Entrepreneurship

Wed, 2009-04-22 16:41 — admin

Talk on Evaluation and Social Entrepreneurship and how to affect profound social change

http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/events/podcast/video_SEC1.html

Eliminating World Poverty: Building Our Common Future

Tue, 2009-04-07 14:29 — admin

The Department for International Development (DFID), 2009

Available online as PDF file [32p.] at: http://www.dfid.gov.uk/securingourcommonfuture/conference-paper-eliminating-poverty.pdf

This background paper for the DFID annual conference "Securing our Common Future: A Conference on the Future of International Development" (9-10 March 2009, London)

An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Human Development

Thu, 2009-04-02 08:39 — admin

Textbook Project:

HDCA Textbook convened by Séverine Deneulin
Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative, Oxford Department of International Development
Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, UK 2009
** These are draft chapters for comments only. They are not to be cited or reproduced without the permission of the authors.**

The healthcare trap

Sun, 2009-03-22 04:56 — admin

Why do rich countries spend so much on health, when evidence shows it doesn't make much difference to life expectancy?

Richard Smith
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 10 June 2008 11.00 BST

As countries get richer they spend more and more on healthcare. A congressional report (pdf) recently showed that the US might be spending 50% of its gross domestic product on health by 2082.

Could this happen in Britain? Is it possible or desirable?

CSIS: Global Water Futures

Sun, 2009-03-22 04:38 — admin

This White Paper addresses the growing global challenges of dealing with the
devastating effects of increasing water scarcity and declining water quality. Across
the planet, in developing and developed regions alike, poor governance and
mismanagement of natural resources coupled with rising population growth,
increasing urbanization, and economic development have led to a growing
imbalance between water supply and demand. This imbalance is reaching crisis
proportions in many regions. It will have even more significant consequences for

Challenges in measuring changes in health and social indicators over time

Sat, 2009-03-21 08:09 — admin

Robert W Platt1, Jennifer Zeitlin2
1 Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and of Pediatrics, McGill University, Westmount, Canada
2 INSERM, UMR, Epidemiological Research Unit on Perinatal Health and Women's and Children's Health, , Paris, France
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2009 - April 2009 (Volume 63, Number 4).

Website: http://jech.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/63/4/267

“……The paper by Mortensen et al1 raises important questions in the study of time trends in fetal growth and other exposures and outcomes.

The healthcare trap

Wed, 2009-03-18 07:19 — admin

Why do rich countries spend so much on health, when evidence shows it doesn't make much difference to life expectancy?

Richard Smith
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 10 June 2008 11.00 BST

As countries get richer they spend more and more on healthcare. A congressional report (pdf) recently showed that the US might be spending 50% of its gross domestic product on health by 2082.

Could this happen in Britain? Is it possible or desirable?

The healthcare trap

Wed, 2009-03-18 07:16 — admin

Why do rich countries spend so much on health, when evidence shows it doesn't make much difference to life expectancy?

Richard Smith
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 10 June 2008 11.00 BST

As countries get richer they spend more and more on healthcare. A congressional report (pdf) recently showed that the US might be spending 50% of its gross domestic product on health by 2082.

Could this happen in Britain? Is it possible or desirable?

HOW DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ARE COPING WITH THE GLOBAL CRISIS

Fri, 2009-03-13 13:06 — admin

SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE:
HOW DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ARE COPING WITH THE GLOBAL CRISIS

Background Paper prepared by World Bank Staff for the G20 Finance Ministers and Central
Bank Governors Meeting, Horsham, United Kingdom on March 13-14, 2009

Available online PDF [21p.] at:
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/NEWS/Resources/swimmingagainstthetide-march2009.pdf

SAISPHERE: Water: The New Reality (pdf version)

Fri, 2009-03-13 11:12 — admin

Below are a list of the articles in the new SAISPHERE focusing on the new understandings regarding global water supplies.

For more information:

http://www.sais-jhu.edu/pressroom/publications/saisphere/2008/index.htm

The World Is Dry (pdf version)
by Erik R. Peterson

Getting to the Bottom of Water Scarcity (pdf version)
by Pieter Bottelier

The Mediterranean: Byway or Barrier? (pdf version)
by Esther Brimmer

The Price of Power in the Mekong Delta (pdf version)
by Frederick Z. Brown

Grains of Gold: Water in Central Asia (pdf version)
by John Daly

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