Social Watch Report 2006 - Impossible Architecture
Publication_year:
2006
Annual report:
Yes
Summary:
WHY THE FINANCIAL STRUCTURE IS NOT WORKING FOR THE POOR AND HOW TO REDESIGN IT FOR EQUITY AND DEVELOPMENT
Table of contents
Preface. Redesigning the financial architecture
THEMATIC REPORTS
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Multilateral financial institutions: overhauling development finance
Exposing the myth and plugging the leaks
Decentralization and sovereignty: how policy space is eroded
Reclaiming development: streamline the Bretton Woods institutions
From Monterrey to Basel: who rules the banks?
Forever in your debt?
Box: Latin America: debt, investment, capital flight
Migrant worker remittances: a way out of poverty?
International taxation: the time is ripe
Box: Currency Transaction Tax
Global tax evasion
Beyond consultation: innovative sources
The new aid modalities for MDG financing: will the European Union keep its promises?
Box: Some considerations regarding budget support
Box: Gender budget initiatives in CEE/CIS region
The Arab region: at the crossroad of development security and human rights
What if developing countries could finance poverty eradication from their own public resources?
MEASURING PROGRESS
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Ensuring basic capabilities, an essential task for development
Poverty and inequality. A question of rights
Food security. More and more people are going hungry
Education. The challenge of universality
Information, science and technology. Digital gap, people gap
Public expenditure. Abysmal differences
Development assistance. Discouraging trends
The environment. Access versus the privatization of resources
Health. Extreme risk
Reproductive health. Deficiencies that cost lives
Gender equity. The need to acknowledge discrimination
The long road to gender equity
Development indicators at the service of human rights monitoring
How to read the Social Watch tables
The present situation of poverty in the world
Food security
Education
Information, science and technology
Public expenditure
Trends in Official Development Assistance
Environment
Health
Children’s immunization
Women’s reproductive health
Gender equity
Status of ratifications of fundamental ILO conventions
Status of ratifications of International Treaties mentioned in the Millennium Declaration
Human Rights International Treaties: how do countries fulfil their obligations
Methodology
Glossary
Compilation of articles on human rights mentioned in the statistics tables
Sources and resources
NATIONAL REPORTS
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ALBANIA
ALGERIA
ARGENTINA
BAHRAIN
BENIN
BOLIVIA
BRAZIL
BULGARIA
CANADA
CHILE
COLOMBIA
COSTA RICA
ECUADOR
EL SALVADOR
GERMANY
GHANA
HONDURAS
INDIA
ITALY
KAZAKHSTAN
KENYA
KOREA, Republic of
LATVIA
LEBANON
MALTA
MEXICO
MOROCCO
MOZAMBIQUE
NEPAL
NIGERIA
PAKISTAN
PARAGUAY
PERU
PHILIPPINES
ROMANIA
SPAIN
SWITZERLAND
TANZANIA
THAILAND
UGANDA
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ZAMBIA
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