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Table
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Preface.
Redesigning the financial architecture |
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Multilateral
financial institutions: overhauling development finance |
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Exposing
the myth and plugging the leaks |
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Decentralization
and sovereignty: how policy space is eroded |
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Reclaiming
development: streamline the Bretton Woods institutions |
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From
Monterrey to Basel: who rules the banks? |
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Forever
in your debt? |
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Box:
Latin America: debt, investment, capital flight |
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Migrant
worker remittances: a way out of poverty? |
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International
taxation: the time is ripe |
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Box:
Currency Transaction Tax |
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Global
tax evasion |
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Beyond
consultation: innovative sources |
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The
new aid modalities for MDG financing: will the European Union keep
its promises? |
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Box:
Some considerations regarding budget support |
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Box:
Gender budget initiatives in CEE/CIS region |
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The
Arab region: at the crossroad of development security and human
rights |
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What
if developing countries could finance poverty eradication from their
own public resources? |
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MEASURING PROGRESS
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Ensuring
basic capabilities, an essential task for development |
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Poverty
and inequality. A question of rights |
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Food
security. More and more people are going hungry |
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Education.
The challenge of universality |
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Information,
science and technology. Digital gap, people gap |
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Public
expenditure. Abysmal differences |
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Development
assistance. Discouraging trends |
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The
environment. Access versus the privatization of resources |
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Health.
Extreme risk |
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Reproductive
health. Deficiencies that cost lives |
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Gender
equity. The need to acknowledge discrimination |
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The
long road to gender equity |
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Development
indicators at the service of human rights monitoring |
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How
to read the Social Watch tables |
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The
present situation of poverty in the world |
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Food
security |
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Education |
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Information,
science and technology |
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Public
expenditure |
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Trends
in Official Development Assistance |
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Environment |
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Health |
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Children’s
immunization |
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Women’s
reproductive health |
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Gender
equity |
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Status
of ratifications of fundamental ILO conventions |
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Status
of ratifications of International Treaties mentioned in the
Millennium Declaration |
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Human
Rights International Treaties: how do countries fulfil their
obligations |
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Methodology |
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Glossary |
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Compilation
of articles on human rights mentioned in the statistics tables |
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Sources
and resources |
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NATIONAL REPORTS
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ALBANIA |
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ALGERIA |
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ARGENTINA |
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BAHRAIN |
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BENIN |
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BOLIVIA |
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BRAZIL |
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BULGARIA |
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CANADA |
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CHILE |
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COLOMBIA |
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COSTA
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ECUADOR |
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GERMANY |
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GHANA |
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HONDURAS |
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INDIA |
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ITALY |
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KAZAKHSTAN |
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KENYA |
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KOREA,
Republic of |
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LATVIA |
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LEBANON |
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MALTA |
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MEXICO |
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MOROCCO |
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MOZAMBIQUE |
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NEPAL |
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NIGERIA |
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PAKISTAN |
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PARAGUAY |
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PERU |
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PHILIPPINES |
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ROMANIA |
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SPAIN |
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SWITZERLAND |
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TANZANIA |
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THAILAND |
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UGANDA |
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UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA
The US sends the lowest amount of aid as a proportion of government spending among the countries
on the OECD Assistance Committee, and much of this “foreign aid” actually serves its own economic
and political interests. At home, social policies and programs are severely and increasingly underfunded,
leading to growing poverty and inequality. |
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ZAMBIA |
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POSTER
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Impossible
Financial Architecture |
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The
Social Watch Scorecard 2006 |
