Social Watch Report 2009 - Making finances work: People first

Table of contents

• Social Watch in the world
• Social Watch: promoting accountability
• Table of Contents
• Voices that make a difference (Roberto Bissio)
• People first (Roberto Bissio)

• THEMATIC REPORTS
  • A human rights-based response to the financial and economic crisis
  • Gender equality and the financial crisis
  • The global food price crisis
  • Energy Challenges for Europe
  • Holding transnational corporations accountable for human rights obligations: the role of civil society
  • The global economic crisis and the least developed countries: citizens’ concerns
  • Mounting development challenges posed by the world economic crisis: policy options in the Arab region
  • Not a regulatory failure; rather a structural crisis
  • Reforming the political system: giving power back to the people
  • European Community: Europe’s response to the global financial and economic crisis
  • Philippines: Justice to cool the planet

• NATIONAL REPORTS
  • Algeria: Outside the system but, safe from the crisis?
  • Argentina: New context, old policies
  • Bahrain: The impact of globalization on Bahraini people
  • Bangladesh: More poverty, vulnerability and food insecurity
  • Belgium: The high cost of the bank rescue
  • Benin: Civil society to the fore
  • Bolivia: The moment of truth
  • Brazil: Swimming through a tsunami?
  • Bulgaria: Social unrest
  • Cambodia: Economic growth must be re-directed
  • Canada: Economic stimulus 2009: opportunity lost
  • Central African Republic: The reduction of poverty: a very distant objective
  • Chile: The social impact of the crisis and the people's response
  • Costa Rica: One crisis, two country visions
  • Cyprus: Time to re-evaluate policies
  • Czech Republic: Democracy at a dead end
  • Egypt: An unprotected economy
  • El Salvador: The crisis and some encouraging changes
  • Eritrea: An open-air prison confronts the global crisis
  • France: Unemployment, exclusion and ineffective aid
  • Germany: Before the storm: social impacts of the financial crisis
  • Ghana: Inequality: the biggest challenge
  • Guatemala: Rich country, poor people
  • Honduras: First the crisis, then dictatorship
  • Hungary: Government structure being revised
  • India: Breaks in the road and missed milestones
  • Iraq: Women's empowerment: a misunderstood process
  • Italy: A weak and inadequate response
  • Kenya: Neo-liberal orthodoxy and the ostrich game
  • Lebanon: No dialogue on the crisis
  • Malaysia: A gloomy outlook
  • Malta: No shelter from the crisis
  • Mexico: The worsening crisis challenges social rights
  • Moldova: There is a crisis, after all
  • Morocco: Direct impacts, weak responses
  • Mozambique: Without dialogue there can be no human development
  • Myanmar: Many crises, no response
  • Nepal: Crises, challenges and perspectives
  • Nicaragua: A major change of course is needed
  • Nigeria: Deepening plights
  • Paraguay: Development of an anti-crisis plan
  • Peru: The workers' proposal
  • Philippines: From bad to worse
  • Poland: An even gloomier development picture
  • Portugal: An old crisis and fresh challenges
  • Romania: Dire prospects
  • Senegal: Farming: the sole answer
  • Serbia: Global crisis, local unrest
  • Slovakia: Revising the plans
  • Slovenia: Challenges for an emerging civil society
  • Somalia: A defenceless country
  • Spain: Not tackling the basic issues
  • Tanzania: Poverty reduction is endangered
  • Thailand: A short-sighted response (once more)
  • Uganda: Millennium Development Goals at risk
  • United States of America: Opportunity in crisis? Navigating the perfect storm
  • Venezuela: Not such a participatory democracy
  • Viet Nam: National progress hampered by global crises
  • West Bank and Gaza: Poor and imprisoned
  • Yemen: Oil is not enough
  • Zambia: A Government in denial

• MEASURING PROGRESS
  • Food security. The high cost of basic rights (pdf)
  • Education. New technologies and old debts (pdf)
  • Information, science and technology. The ruses of inequity: from the digital to the cognitive gap (pdf)
  • Development assistance. The more help, the more rights (pdf)
  • Water and sanitation. The clean water gap (pdf)
  • Health. Globalization and its pathologies (pdf)
  • Reproductive health. A matter of life and death (pdf)
  • Ratifications of fundamental ILO conventions (pdf)
  • Ratifications of human rights international treaties (pdf)

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