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

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

UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Population Division, March 2009

The official United Nations estimations and projections of population for all countries of the world, covering the period 1950-2050.

Press release: http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/wpp2008/pressrelease.pdf

Data Online : http://esa.un.org/unpp/index.asp

Selected Tables: http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/wpp2008/wpp2008_text_tables.pdf

Anna Gatti and Andrea Boggio (editors)

“……There is growing awareness of the crucial relationship between health and development. But while the importance of this relationship may be obvious, scholars are still debating about the nature of it, and different assumptions on this crucial relationship have an impact on the developmental agenda of international organizations and their modus operandi at country level.

Recommendations for the G20

Edited by Richard Baldwin and Simon Evenett
Graduate Institute, Geneva and CEPR; University of St. Gallen and CEPR
UK Centre for Economic Policy Research CEPR 2009

Available online as PDf file [115p.] at: http://www.graduateinstitute.ch/webdav/site/iheid/shared/iheid/31/Murky_Protectionism.pdf

“…..When G20 leaders met last November in Washington, trade was a side issue; urgent efforts focused on stabilising financial systems and kick-starting economies. When leaders meet at the London Summit in April 2009, trade must move to centre stage.

HM Government, UK - February 2009

Available online at PDF [35p.] at:
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_095296

The UK Government has recently agreed the first cross-Government Institutional Strategy (IS) with the World Health Organization (WHO).
The overall aim of the strategy is to set out how the UK and WHO will work together, and to provide a basis for multi-year (2008-2013) core funding relationship with WHO.

Agreement on health foreign policy objectives

Federal Department of Home Affairs (FDHA) and Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA)
Federal Office of Public Health FOPH Switzerland

PDF [20p.] available online at:
http://www.bag.admin.ch/org/01044/index.html?lang=en&download=M3wBPgDB/8ull6Du36WenojQ1NTTjaXZnqWfVp3Uhmfhnapmmc7Zi6rZnqCkkIZ2fHh/bKbXrZ6lhuDZz8mMps2gpKfo

Website: http://www.bag.admin.ch/org/01044/03338/index.html?lang=en

What should we be doing with the new homeless and how fast could the edge cities in the United States grow?

March 11, 2009, 3:19 PM
Sacramento and Its Riverside Tent City
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

Renee Hadley covered her bicycles with a tarp outside her tent on Tuesday in Sacramento, Calif.
A tent city is burgeoning in Sacramento, Calif., prompting local officials to consider whether such an encampment should be made permanent, with plumbing and all.

Moran M, Guzman J, Ropars AL, McDonald A, Jameson N, et al. (2009)
PLoS Medicine - February 2009 | Volume 6 | Issue 2 | e1000030

Available online at:
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000030

Obes Rev. 2009 Jan 15 [Ahead of print].
Cinar AB, Murtomaa H.
Institute of Dentistry, University of Helsinki

Available online:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121640472/PDFSTART

Final Report Stage 2 Primary Health Care Research Impact project
- PHC RIS Research team
Libby Kalucy, Eleanor Jackson Bowers, Ellen McIntyre, Ann-Louise Hordacre, Richard Reed,
Australia: Primary Health Care Research & Information Service - February 2009

Available online as PDF file [54p.] at:
http://www.phcris.org.au/phplib/filedownload.php?file=/elib/lib/downloaded_files/publications/pdfs/phcris_pub_8108.pdf

Priority setting: what constitutes success?
A conceptual framework for successful priority setting

Shannon L Sibbald1,2*, Peter A. Singer3, Ross Upshur2,4, Douglas K Martin1,2
1 Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto, Canada
3 The McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, Toronto, Canada
4Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, Toronto, Canada
BMC Health Services Research – March 9, 2009 -- 9:43 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-9-43

Toward Health Equity and Patient-Centeredness:
Integrating Health Literacy, Disparities Reduction, and Quality Improvement: Workshop Summary

Rapporteurs: Samantha Chao, Karen Anderson, and Lyla Hernandez
Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation;
Roundtable on Health Disparities; Roundtable on Health Literacy; Institute of Medicine, 2009

Available online at; http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12502