Poverty reduction and debt relief programs, fixed by the big powers, have repeated the dogma of globalisation through ‘free trade’ as a means of salvation for poor countries. The Cairns Group, an agricultural export lobby, has reinforced this message in […]
This chapter will discuss important conflicts of interest over agricultural development in the Australia-East Timor relationship. East Timor needs to stabilise domestic production, as the central element of its food security strategy. However Australia has a strategic view of global […]
This paper discusses the implications, for infectious disease control, of distinct social values embedded in health system organising principles. The Mexican and Cuban health systems are taken as examples of neighbouring but widely divergent systems, producing different public health outcomes. […]
In 1997 the Howard Government gave Australia’s foreign aid program a ‘poverty reduction’ focus with a ‘national interest’ link, later developing ‘good governance’ as the principal program theme. This anticipated the IMF and World Bank’s 1999 abandoning of ‘structural adjustment’ […]
Short clip from Hugo Chávez’s speech on resource sovereignty at the Poliedro, World Social Forum, Caracas, January 2006.