Social Watch Report 2009 - Making finances work: People first
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- 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)
