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| Why
Asia is Probably Poorer than We Think |
| Jayati
Ghosh |
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| Asia's
'success' in reducing poverty uses a flawed
system for measuring income on the basis
of an average value based on Purchasing
Power Parity and ignores food insecurity. |
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| More
of the Same, Just Prettier |
| Gabriele
Köhler |
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| The
new recommendations for the Post-2015 MDG
Agenda remain mired in neo-liberalism and
have very little substance to offer. |
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Human
Security and the Next Generation
of Comprehensive Human Development Goals |
| Gabriele
Koehler, Des Gasper, Richard Jolly, Mara
Simane |
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| 2015
marks the target year of the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by the
UN in 2000. The goals have not yet been
fully achieved due to various reasons, and
the unfulfilled agendas need immediate attention.
This paper makes a case for extending the
MDGs beyond 2015 but significantly reshaping
them: to make progress towards goals more
explicitly rights-based and participatory,
to prioritise economic and social equity
and environmental sustainability, to insist
on the centrality of employment and decent
work, and to move away from the outdated
and oversimplified North-South dichotomy. |
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Provincial
Migration in China:
Preliminary insights from the 2010 population
census |
| Andrew
M. Fischer |
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In
anticipation of the forthcoming release
of the 2010 national population census of
China, this paper compares the limited population
data that have been released so far with
annual data on natural population increase
since the 2000 census in order to construct
a rough but robust measure of net migration
for each province in China between these
two censuses. The results emphasise the
extent of net out-migration from much of
interior and western China as well as the
degree to which rapid population growth
in five coastal growth poles has been due
to net in-migration. |
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| Affordable
Medicine: A big step forward |
| C.P.
Chandrasekhar |
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The
recent judgement by India's Controller of
Patents granting Compulsory License to an
Indian pharmaceutical company for the production
of a cancer drug, the patent for which is
held by
German pharmaceuticals and chemicals giant
Bayer, is not just historic but path breaking. |
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| Financial
Architectures and Development: Resilience,
policy space, and human development in the
global south |
| Ilene
Grabel |
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| In
this paper it is argued that the current
crisis is proving to be productive of institutional
experimentation in the realm of financial
architecture(s) in the developing world.
The author argues that today there are numerous
opportunities for policy and institutional
experimentation, and there are clear signs
that these opportunities are being exploited
in a variety of distinct ways. As compared
to any other moment over the last several
decades, there are clear signs of fissures,
realignments and institutional changes in
the structures of financial governance across
the global South. |
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| Beyond
GDP: Measuring our progress |
| Charles
Seaford, Sorcha Mahoney, Mathis Wackernagel,
Joy Larson, Réne Ramírez Gallegos |
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is now widely accepted that one must move
beyond viewing GDP as the critical measure
of a nation's progress and recognise it
for what it is - a measure of economic exchange,
which is itself a means to an end; the 'end'
being the achievement of 'sustainable well-being'.
In this paper, the authors focus on ways
of measuring environmental sustainability
and well-being, as well as offering a view
from the global South which entails measures
of both of these. |
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| Austerity
Measures Threaten Children and Poor Households |
| Isabel
Ortiz, Jingqing Chai and Matthew Cummins |
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| In
the wake of the food, fuel and financial
shocks, a fourth wave of the global economic
crisis began in 2010, viz., fiscal austerity.
Updating earlier research by UNICEF, this
working paper examines the latest IMF government
spending projections for 128 developing
countries, comparing the three periods of
2005-07 (pre-crisis), 2008-09 (fiscal expansion)
and 2010-12 (fiscal contraction). It discusses
the possible risks of the adjustment measures
for social expenditures and summarises a
series of alternative policy options. |
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| The
Consequences of Increasing Access to Education |
| Jayati
Ghosh |
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Globally,
there has been a rise in student enrolments
in educational institutions, which is a
welcome improvement. However, this development
gives rise to newer challenges of providing
productive employment to meet the aspirations
of the newly educated youths. Failure to
do so can generate discontent and social
tensions that can be destabilising factors
for all societies in the near future. |
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