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Journal article

Gendered austerity and embodied debt in Ecuador: channels through which women absorb and resist the shocks of public budget cuts

31/08/2022

27 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gendered austerity and embodied debt in Ecuador: channels through which women absorb and resist the shocks of public budget cuts

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Overview

This paper examines the dynamics and implications of gendered austerity in Ecuador in the context of the fiscal consolidation framework recommended in the country's International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan programme, through three channels. First, that of the public health sector and the experiences of women public health workers. Second, that of unpaid care work and […]

Briefing paper

Addressing the Human Cost of Assam Tea: An agenda for change to respect, protect and fulfil human rights on Assam tea plantations

10/10/2019

2 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Workers on tea plantations in the Assam region of India are systematically denied their rights to a living wage and decent working and living conditions. The fact that they are unable to meet their basic living costs is starkly illustrated by our finding that 50% of the households that researchers visited on behalf of Oxfam […]

Journal article

Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal settlements in Freetown

23/03/2021

18 pages long

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Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal settlements in Freetown

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Overview

This paper applies an intersectional lens to health in informal urban settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone. We explored how intersecting social characteristics including gender, age, wealth, occupation, and tenant status influence health and well-being outcomes. We found that hazardous environmental conditions, poor waste disposal, and waste burning contribute to health problems at a neighbourhood level. […]

Briefing paper

Sick Development: How rich-country government and World Bank funding to for-profit private hospitals causes harm and should be stopped

29/06/2023

6 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Development finance institutions owned by European governments and the World Bank Group are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on expensive for-profit hospitals in the Global South that block patients from getting care, or bankrupt them, with some even imprisoning patients who cannot afford their bills. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of […]

Case study

Has the Impact of HIV and AIDS Affected the Lives of Rural ‘Gogos’?

06/06/2005

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

For some, growing old has been an opportunity to stand back from daily lfe and to enjoy some personal time. For others though, this has been a time when, traditionally, some forms of childcare have been the norm. The sometimes idealistic picture of quietude in old age is, for many, now being shattered by the […]

Briefing note

Arms Transfer Decisions: Considering development

27/06/2008

4 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The devastating impact of armed violence around the world is well known. Conflict and armed violence close schools, paralyse neighbourhoods, burden health-care services, discourage investment, and make lives less secure. Spending on arms or arms races can divert vital funds from public services such as education and health-care, and when such spending takes place without […]

Briefing note

Essential Services: HIV, health services and gender in South Africa

01/09/2006

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Much has been achieved in just over a decade of democracy in South Africa by facilitating access of the poor to health and other services. However much more needs to be done if the constitutional rights of citizens to dignity is to become universal. Under the strain of an HIV onslaught, second to non in […]

Technical briefing

Practical Guide: Applying sustainable development to arms-transfer decisions

01/04/2009

3 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The devastating impact of conflict, armed crime, and all forms of armed violence around the world is apparent for all to see. Armed violence closes schools, paralyses communities, burdens health-care systems, discourages investment and economic activity, and makes lives and livelihoods less secure. Spending on arms or arms races can divert vital funds from public […]

Book

The Doctor Go Round

01/01/1977

1 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Health systems

Overview

What can be done to achieve adequate health care for the huge numbers of people in the world who now receive little or none? While a person in Britain receives more doctor-care in a year than the average Ethiopian can expect in a lifetime, what kind of health programmes are needed to bridge the gap? […]

Journal article

Viewpoint

01/11/2003

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

Based on ‘Primary Health Care: can the dream be revived?’. 12 September 2003 was the twenty-fifth anniversary of WHOs Alma Ata Health for All (HfA) by the Year 2000 Strategy. The strategy reflected an optimism that health could improve for poor and disadvantaged peoples around the world through the provision of comprehensive primary health care […]

Showing 421 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Gendered austerity and embodied debt in Ecuador: channels through which women absorb and resist the shocks of public budget cuts

31/08/2022

27 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gendered austerity and embodied debt in Ecuador: channels through which women absorb and resist the shocks of public budget cuts

Keywords

Overview

This paper examines the dynamics and implications of gendered austerity in Ecuador in the context of the fiscal consolidation framework recommended in the country's International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan programme, through three channels. First, that of the public health sector and the experiences of women public health workers. Second, that of unpaid care work and […]

Briefing paper

Addressing the Human Cost of Assam Tea: An agenda for change to respect, protect and fulfil human rights on Assam tea plantations

10/10/2019

2 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Workers on tea plantations in the Assam region of India are systematically denied their rights to a living wage and decent working and living conditions. The fact that they are unable to meet their basic living costs is starkly illustrated by our finding that 50% of the households that researchers visited on behalf of Oxfam […]

Journal article

Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal settlements in Freetown

23/03/2021

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal settlements in Freetown

Keywords

Overview

This paper applies an intersectional lens to health in informal urban settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone. We explored how intersecting social characteristics including gender, age, wealth, occupation, and tenant status influence health and well-being outcomes. We found that hazardous environmental conditions, poor waste disposal, and waste burning contribute to health problems at a neighbourhood level. […]

Briefing paper

Sick Development: How rich-country government and World Bank funding to for-profit private hospitals causes harm and should be stopped

29/06/2023

6 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Development finance institutions owned by European governments and the World Bank Group are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on expensive for-profit hospitals in the Global South that block patients from getting care, or bankrupt them, with some even imprisoning patients who cannot afford their bills. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of […]

Case study

Has the Impact of HIV and AIDS Affected the Lives of Rural ‘Gogos’?

06/06/2005

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

For some, growing old has been an opportunity to stand back from daily lfe and to enjoy some personal time. For others though, this has been a time when, traditionally, some forms of childcare have been the norm. The sometimes idealistic picture of quietude in old age is, for many, now being shattered by the […]

Briefing note

Arms Transfer Decisions: Considering development

27/06/2008

4 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The devastating impact of armed violence around the world is well known. Conflict and armed violence close schools, paralyse neighbourhoods, burden health-care services, discourage investment, and make lives less secure. Spending on arms or arms races can divert vital funds from public services such as education and health-care, and when such spending takes place without […]

Briefing note

Essential Services: HIV, health services and gender in South Africa

01/09/2006

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Much has been achieved in just over a decade of democracy in South Africa by facilitating access of the poor to health and other services. However much more needs to be done if the constitutional rights of citizens to dignity is to become universal. Under the strain of an HIV onslaught, second to non in […]

Technical briefing

Practical Guide: Applying sustainable development to arms-transfer decisions

01/04/2009

3 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The devastating impact of conflict, armed crime, and all forms of armed violence around the world is apparent for all to see. Armed violence closes schools, paralyses communities, burdens health-care systems, discourages investment and economic activity, and makes lives and livelihoods less secure. Spending on arms or arms races can divert vital funds from public […]

Book

The Doctor Go Round

01/01/1977

1 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Health systems

Overview

What can be done to achieve adequate health care for the huge numbers of people in the world who now receive little or none? While a person in Britain receives more doctor-care in a year than the average Ethiopian can expect in a lifetime, what kind of health programmes are needed to bridge the gap? […]

Journal article

Viewpoint

01/11/2003

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Based on ‘Primary Health Care: can the dream be revived?’. 12 September 2003 was the twenty-fifth anniversary of WHOs Alma Ata Health for All (HfA) by the Year 2000 Strategy. The strategy reflected an optimism that health could improve for poor and disadvantaged peoples around the world through the provision of comprehensive primary health care […]

Showing 421 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Gendered austerity and embodied debt in Ecuador: channels through which women absorb and resist the shocks of public budget cuts

31/08/2022

27 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gendered austerity and embodied debt in Ecuador: channels through which women absorb and resist the shocks of public budget cuts

Keywords

Overview

This paper examines the dynamics and implications of gendered austerity in Ecuador in the context of the fiscal consolidation framework recommended in the country's International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan programme, through three channels. First, that of the public health sector and the experiences of women public health workers. Second, that of unpaid care work and […]

Briefing paper

Addressing the Human Cost of Assam Tea: An agenda for change to respect, protect and fulfil human rights on Assam tea plantations

10/10/2019

2 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Workers on tea plantations in the Assam region of India are systematically denied their rights to a living wage and decent working and living conditions. The fact that they are unable to meet their basic living costs is starkly illustrated by our finding that 50% of the households that researchers visited on behalf of Oxfam […]

Journal article

Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal settlements in Freetown

23/03/2021

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal settlements in Freetown

Keywords

Overview

This paper applies an intersectional lens to health in informal urban settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone. We explored how intersecting social characteristics including gender, age, wealth, occupation, and tenant status influence health and well-being outcomes. We found that hazardous environmental conditions, poor waste disposal, and waste burning contribute to health problems at a neighbourhood level. […]

Briefing paper

Sick Development: How rich-country government and World Bank funding to for-profit private hospitals causes harm and should be stopped

29/06/2023

6 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Development finance institutions owned by European governments and the World Bank Group are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on expensive for-profit hospitals in the Global South that block patients from getting care, or bankrupt them, with some even imprisoning patients who cannot afford their bills. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of […]

Case study

Has the Impact of HIV and AIDS Affected the Lives of Rural ‘Gogos’?

06/06/2005

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

For some, growing old has been an opportunity to stand back from daily lfe and to enjoy some personal time. For others though, this has been a time when, traditionally, some forms of childcare have been the norm. The sometimes idealistic picture of quietude in old age is, for many, now being shattered by the […]

Briefing note

Arms Transfer Decisions: Considering development

27/06/2008

4 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The devastating impact of armed violence around the world is well known. Conflict and armed violence close schools, paralyse neighbourhoods, burden health-care services, discourage investment, and make lives less secure. Spending on arms or arms races can divert vital funds from public services such as education and health-care, and when such spending takes place without […]

Briefing note

Essential Services: HIV, health services and gender in South Africa

01/09/2006

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Much has been achieved in just over a decade of democracy in South Africa by facilitating access of the poor to health and other services. However much more needs to be done if the constitutional rights of citizens to dignity is to become universal. Under the strain of an HIV onslaught, second to non in […]

Technical briefing

Practical Guide: Applying sustainable development to arms-transfer decisions

01/04/2009

3 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The devastating impact of conflict, armed crime, and all forms of armed violence around the world is apparent for all to see. Armed violence closes schools, paralyses communities, burdens health-care systems, discourages investment and economic activity, and makes lives and livelihoods less secure. Spending on arms or arms races can divert vital funds from public […]

Book

The Doctor Go Round

01/01/1977

1 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Health systems

Overview

What can be done to achieve adequate health care for the huge numbers of people in the world who now receive little or none? While a person in Britain receives more doctor-care in a year than the average Ethiopian can expect in a lifetime, what kind of health programmes are needed to bridge the gap? […]

Journal article

Viewpoint

01/11/2003

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Based on ‘Primary Health Care: can the dream be revived?’. 12 September 2003 was the twenty-fifth anniversary of WHOs Alma Ata Health for All (HfA) by the Year 2000 Strategy. The strategy reflected an optimism that health could improve for poor and disadvantaged peoples around the world through the provision of comprehensive primary health care […]