Fatal Indifference: The G8, Africa and Global Health

Table of Contents......Page 4
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Table of Acronyms......Page 8
A Note on Country Designation......Page 10
Foreword......Page 11
Introduction......Page 13
Why a Focus on the G8?......Page 15
The Report Card Project......Page 16
Outline of the Book......Page 20
Limitations of the Analysis......Page 22
Introduction......Page 24
Contemporary Globalization......Page 25
Globalization, Health and Development: Competing Arguments, Conflicting Evidence......Page 27
A Framework for Understanding Globalization\'s Impacts on Health......Page 29
Poverty and Income Inequality......Page 33
The Environment and Sustainable Development......Page 34
Introduction......Page 36
\'Debt Crises\' and Structural Adjustment......Page 37
The Need for Debt Relief and the HIPC Initiative......Page 41
HIPC Conditionally: Are PRSPs Just the Reincarnation of Structural Adjustment?......Page 49
Poverty Reduction and Foreign Direct Investment......Page 52
International Finance, Tax Competition and Offshore Financial Centers......Page 55
Summary: Chapter Two......Page 58
Introduction......Page 62
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria......Page 65
Essential Health Interventions as Global Public Goods......Page 70
Health System Infrastructure......Page 72
G8 Official Development Assistance to Health-Systems Development......Page 76
The Brain Drain......Page 81
Access to Essential Medicines......Page 84
Macroeconomic Policies and Health Care......Page 87
Privatization, Liberalization and GATS......Page 89
Tobacco Control: Deadly Silence from the G8......Page 94
Summary: Chapter Three......Page 96
Introduction......Page 102
Education for All and the Dakar Framework for Action......Page 103
Policy Challenges, G8 Responses......Page 107
Summary: Chapter Four......Page 116
Introduction......Page 119
Nutrition and Food Security......Page 120
G7 ODA to Agriculture......Page 123
Child Malnutrition, Food Security and Africa......Page 126
Biotechnology and Food Security......Page 128
Agricultural Exports and Food Security......Page 132
Food Security: An Epilogue......Page 135
Summary: Chapter Five......Page 136
Introduction......Page 139
Trends in G7 Official Development Assistance......Page 141
ODA in the Near Future......Page 155
The Politics of Aid......Page 156
Summary: Chapter Six......Page 158
Introduction......Page 161
Improving Market Access......Page 162
Protected and Subsidized Agriculture......Page 166
Market Access: Necessary but Not Sufficient......Page 168
WTO Participation......Page 169
Market Liberalization and Changes in Taxation......Page 172
Summary: Chapter Seven......Page 173
Introduction......Page 176
Drinking Water and Sanitation......Page 178
Privatization, Water and GATS......Page 180
Environmental Assessments of ECA Activities......Page 182
Commitments on Multilateral Environmental Agreements......Page 184
Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy......Page 186
Johannesburg and the Retreat from Sustainable Development......Page 191
Summary: Chapter Eight......Page 192
Introduction......Page 195
Global Policy, African Realities......Page 196
The NEPAD Report Card Project......Page 210
Conclusion......Page 226
Introduction......Page 228
Promises Kept, Promises Broken......Page 229
Promises Right, Promises Wrong......Page 232
Areas for Further Research......Page 236
Conclusion: The G8 and the Question of Global Governance......Page 247
Epilogue......Page 253
References......Page 256
Appendix 1: G7 and G8 Health-Related Commitments Matrix: 1999–2001......Page 294
Appendix 2: Data Tables......Page 340
Appendix 3: NEPAD\'s Health Commitments......Page 355
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