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Tue, 2009-02-24 10:58 — admin

The mission of the Transitional Societies Working Group is to identify, analyze, and engage societies and communities that could fall into crisis or progress based upon the insertion of financial, social, human, and intellectual capital. In general, these states are the most vulnerable to drops in health status, social crisis, conflict, and war. The insertion of military power into these states can sometimes maintain a security window. However, soft power approaches that focus on attaining health, resilience, and sustainability are the only mechanisms capable of moving these societies back from the brink of social crisis in any lasting way.

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Development in Dangerous Places

Fri, 2009-07-24 09:37 — admin

A forum on global poverty and intervention

Boston Review – July/August 2009

Website: http://bostonreview.net/BR34.4/ndf_development.php

Paul Collier If richer states provide security, the poorest can finally grow

“The world's poorest countries have diverged from the rest of mankind. They will never tap their vast reservoir of frustrated human potential unless the international community provides basic public goods that go beyond the typical aid agenda.”

Stephen D. Krasner “If third parties play a more decisive role, there is some hope.”

The public health effect of economic crises and alternative policy responses in Europe: 
an empirical analysis

Fri, 2009-07-24 09:23 — admin

David Stuckler PhD a b, Sanjay Basu PhD c d, Marc Suhrcke PhD e f, Adam Coutts PhD g, Martin McKee MD b h
a Department of Sociology, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
b Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
c Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, CA, USA
d Division of General Internal Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, CA, USA
e School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
f Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), Cambridge, UK

Burmese junta still shuns survivors of the cyclone

Sat, 2009-05-02 19:02 — admin

By Andrew Buncombe, Asia correspondent
Saturday, 2 May 2009

On the anniversary of the Burmese cyclone, more than a hundred thousand survivors are still living in makeshift shelters hopelessly inadequate to the monsoon rains that will soon engulf the country.

But despite the population's desperate need, the ruling junta has now tightened regulations to make it harder for aid workers to get visas.

Moving from relief to resilience: the role of business in disaster risk reduction

Wed, 2009-04-22 17:24 — admin

Date:8 April 2009
Source(s):Corporate Social Responsibility Asia (CSR Asia)

Helen Roeth reports that according to the Swiss Reinsurance Company Sigma report, catastrophes and man-made disasters caused 240,500 deaths in 2008, with economic losses up to 269 billion dollars - and numbers are expected to increase due to climate change factors and economic severity of catastrophes.

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