Social Justice
Corporate (anti) social responsibility
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is in the news quite a bit this week. But is it a duck or a rabbit? Or, to be less vague, are the number of ‘anomalies’ stacking up against CSR (the ‘duck’) so persuasive that we can’t really say it’s a duck any more; that we have to conclude that, [...]
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Moving beyond MDG Silos
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
The UN High-Level Summit concluded yesterday. The main headline is the $40 billion in commitments over the next five years for the Global Strategy for Women and Child Health. The real test will be whether donors deliver on these commitments, and are flexible enough in their definition of improving “women and child health” to take [...]
Posted in Aid, MDGs, Nutrition, Social Justice, UN, World Bank | 6 Comments »
Who’s really fighting hunger?
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
ActionAid just released an excellent report on the world hunger situation taking a stark look at what’s going right, and wrong, and what we should be aiming towards. Two things jumped out at me immediately.
Posted in Aid, Nutrition, Social Justice, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Malnutrition in India: Social Change>Handouts
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
This week’s Foreign Policy featured an excellent article by Dr. Purnima Menon on malnutrition in India. Given my frustrations, voiced in an earlier blog about the usual finger-pointing at cultural practices, I was heartened to see that Dr. Menon’s analysis took a more structural approach and argued for real social change over ‘more blind handouts’. [...]
Posted in Nutrition, Social Justice | 4 Comments »
Just give the poor cash
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
An article in last week’s Economist made a strong case for conditional cash transfer schemes, which give stipends to the poor based on them meeting certain criteria such as school attendance for children and regular prenatal and antenatal health visits. Is it really that simple? Should we just give cash to the poor?
Posted in Aid, Nutrition, Social Justice | 3 Comments »
Institutionalizing Justice: A Framework Convention on Global Health?
Monday, July 26th, 2010
Anticipation is building for the September High-Level Summit in New York on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). While numerous reports are being produced tracking the progress towards the MDGs, such as by the Earth Institute and ODI, there has been little attention, at least in our view, to how we can make better progress towards [...]
Posted in Aid, Social Justice, WHO | 7 Comments »
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