Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor Edited by: Jim Ying Kim, Joyce Millen, John Gershman, & Alec Irvin Published by: Common Courage Press, 2000

Is economic “growth” killing the poor? Amidst unprecedented wealth and technological advancement, why do millions still suffer from sickness and hunger? In a collection of 14 case studies, Dying for Growth exposes the truth about who wins, who loses, and why a fifth of the world’s population are consigned to live (and die) on less than a dollar a day.

Covering Haiti, Senegal, Russia, Peru, India, El Salvador, Cuba, Mexico, and the U.S., the studies are rooted in the lives of ordinary people struggling against a new, systemic form of poverty. Among the factors considered are the effects of international restructuring strategies on the poor, the increasing control transnational corporations exert over world health, and the impact of U.S. drug policy on global inequality.

ISBN1-56751-160-0
Price: US $29.95

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The international community is seized at the moment with the topic of reforming the international monetary system in the context of a debate over the costs and benefits of globalization and market-oriented policies. This four-part book brings together Northern and Southern perspectives in a groundbreaking analysis of this pressing issue.

Part I focuses on a broad agenda of reform. Issues discussed include: the crisis-prevention role of regional institutions and monetary arrangements in the South; the lack of macroeconomic regulation and coordination at the world level; and the need for anti-cyclical monetary and financial policies in developing countries.

Part II looks at a new framework for private sector involvement in crisis prevention and crisis management.

Part III discusses recent initiatives to improve the regulation and supervision of private capital flows. It includes the diverging views of leading experts of the Bank for International Settlements and UNCTAD.

Part IV focuses on proposals to make the IMF more effective, transparent and accountable.

ISBN: 90-74208-17-7
Price NLG 50.70 (Euro 23.00)

Contact: Adriana Bulnes,
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With an End in Sight. Strategies from the UNIFEM Trust Fund to Eliminate Violence Against Women. By Cheywa Spindel, Elisa Levy & Melissa Connor Published by the United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2000

This UNIFEM publication tells the stories of programmes in Bosnia Herzegovina, Cambodia, Honduras, India, Kenya, Nigeria and the West Bank and Gaza and shows how women’s organizations can work together with judicial and law enforcement systems, community and youth groups, policy-makers and international organizations to end gender-based violence.

Violence against women, affects women of every nation, belief, class, race and ethnic group. Although violence against women sometimes seems to be an insurmountable problem, change is happening. With an End in Sight shows how groups of women and men, in every region, are challenging cultural norms, forming partnerships, working to find new ways to change attitudes that promote violence against women and lobbying for new laws, policies and services to protect women’s rights.

ISBN: 0-9679502-9-5
Price: US $12.95

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Eradicating poverty has long been one of the priorities of development co-operation. Yet, despite undoubted progress towards this goal, the strategies adopted at the international and national levels remain controversial. The originality of this publication lies in its approach to identifying best practices. How realistic is it to seek to cut extreme poverty by half by the year 2015? What are the most effective strategies employed by donors, be they development agencies or developed countries? What lessons can be learned from the experience of the developing countries? Clearly, these and many other questions are still unresolved. This publication approaches them by giving a broad overview of general poverty-reduction strategies and objectives. It also presents five particularly enlightening case studies on Bolivia, Côte d’Ivoire, the State of Kerala in India, Malaysia and Uganda.

ISBN 92-64-17170-3
Price FF: 240.00 US $: 38.00
DM: 72.00 £:24.00 ¥ 4,400.00

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Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact Edited by: Samantha Power & Graham Allison Published by: St. Martin’s Press, 2000

This book brings together leading activists, policy-makers and critics to reflect upon fifty years of attempts to improve respect for human rights. Authors include President Jimmy Carter, who helped inject human rights concerns into US policy; Wei Jingsheng, who struggled to do so in China; Louis Henkin, the modern “father” of international law, and Richard Goldstone, the former chief prosecutor for the Yugoslav and Rwandan war crimes tribunals. A half-century since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the time is right to assess how policies and actions effect the realization of human rights and to point to new directions and challenges that lie ahead.

ISBN: 0-312-23494-5
Price: US $ 35.00

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Critical Choices looks at global public policy networks as an innovative tool with which to address the challenges that have emerged in the new global environment. In these networks, governments, international organizations, the corporate sector, and civil society join together to achieve what none can accomplish on its own. The authors discuss how such networks might contribute to better manage the risks and make use of the opportunities that globalization presents. Finally, they offer provocative advice and solid recommendations on how the United Nations can foster such networks in the years ahead.

The United Nations faces a set of critical choices. It must not only be a haven for its member states but also needs to find ways to collaborate with civil society and the global business community in tackling the challenges that lie ahead. By promoting global public policy networks, the UN will more effectively serve its member states and fulfill its mission to address the problems of humanity.

ISBN 0-88936-921-6
Price: Cdn $20

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Available in French