Social Watch Report 2010 - After the fall

Table of contents

• Social Watch: promoting accountability
• Table of contents
• Dear Leader, - Roberto Bissio. Social Watch International Secretariat
• After the fall: a New Deal is imperative - Roberto Bissio. Social Watch International Secretariat
• Credits
• Social Watch in the world

• THEMATIC REPORTS
  • The economic crisis: time for a new social deal
  • Gender in times of crisis: new development paradigm needed
  • Global climate: the Copenhagen collapse
  • Critical shareholding: how to use a financial leverage to promote human rights and the environment
  • Privatizing European development finance: the role of the European Investment Bank
  • The Treaty of Lisbon and the new perspectives for EU development policy
  • The Arab States and the MDGs: no progress without social justice

• NATIONAL REPORTS
  • Afghanistan: More and better aid is imperative
  • Argentina: Financial and taxation justice: a historic debt
  • Armenia: Gender equality: history must be honoured
  • Bahrain: Much to be done
  • Bangladesh: Financing the MDGs: expectations and reality
  • Benin: No development without aid
  • Bolivia: The wealth does not reach the people
  • Brazil: Clouds on the horizon
  • Bulgaria: Finance for development in times of crisis
  • Cameroon: Aid must be more efficiently managed
  • Canada: Post-crisis development strategy: “business as usual”
  • Central African Republic: Many obstacles and slow progress
  • Chile: No sustainable development without fair taxation
  • Colombia: Insufficient policies
  • Costa Rica: Health for all: a difficult target to attain
  • Croatia: An uncertain scenario
  • Cyprus: An opportunity for a “social shift”
  • Czech Republic: Further cutbacks to the Welfare State
  • Egypt: The rough road to the Millennium Development Goals
  • El Salvador: Vulnerability and violence, reflections of poverty
  • Eritrea: Held hostage by its own Government
  • Finland: Aid and economic relations still lagging behind people’s welfare
  • France: Reviving the original MDGs spirit
  • Germany: Neglecting the poor and the environment
  • Ghana: MDGs remain elusive
  • Guatemala: Food security: the challenge for effective aid
  • Honduras: Far from the MDGs but near a strong people’s movement
  • Hungary: Neoliberal’s best student is the weakest link in the crisis
  • India: Emerging trends in financing for development
  • Indonesia: More is needed
  • Iraq: Persistent gender-based violence an obstacle to development and peace
  • Italy: The dismantling of development cooperation
  • Kenya: Victim of skewed power relations
  • Lebanon: A new set of goals is needed
  • Malaysia: Some progress, multiple challenges
  • Malta: Measuring the real commitment to development aid
  • Mexico: Unequal progress
  • Moldova: Critical times
  • Morocco: Not enough aid and very slow progress
  • Myanmar: No development without justice: denouncing the democratic farce
  • Nepal: The need for a new development program
  • Nicaragua: The (limited) time of the so-called “demographic bonus”
  • Nigeria: The quest for foreign direct investment
  • Paraguay: Growth should follow social justice
  • Peru: More money but the same social injustice
  • Poland: Foreign assistance lacks basic definitions
  • Portugal: Assistance for development must increase and improve
  • Senegal: More challenges than progress
  • Serbia: No strategy to counter economic and social insecurity
  • Slovakia: The tiger is limping
  • Slovenia: The MDGs: a very distant target
  • Somalia: At the mercy of pirates
  • Spain: At the mercy of the speculators
  • Suriname: Big challenges ahead
  • Switzerland: Stagnating ODA and fading attention to poverty
  • Tanzania: MDGs: an under-funded crusade
  • Thailand: Time to rethink industrial development
  • Uganda: Information and communication technologies: route to development?
  • United States of America: Bold action needed to put people first
  • Uruguay: Social policies need fine tuning
  • Venezuela: A new way to make the same mistakes
  • West Bank and Gaza: The mirage of economic growth
  • Yemen: Oil is not enough
  • Zambia: Foreign direct investment and the fulfillment of key rights

• MEASURING PROGRESS
  • Basic Capabilities Index - Ten years after the Millennium Declaration Progress on the social indicators has slowed down (pdf)
  • Gender Equity Index (pdf)
  • Net Official Development Assistance by Development Assistance Committee Country (pdf)
  • Public Expenditure (pdf)
  • Status of ratifications of International treaties mentioned in the Millennium Declaration (pdf)
  • Ratifications of fundamental International Labour Organization Conventions (pdf)

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