South Africa and Rising powers in international development
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- Doha Declaration does not provide a solution to all of the problems associated with access to medicines
- H. ‘t Hoen / Médecins Sans Frontières, 2003
- Public health advocates welcomed the Doha Declaration as an important achievement because it gave primacy to public health over private intellectual property, and clarified World Trade Organization (WTO) Members' rights to use trade-r...
- Impact of non-contributory pensions upon the wellbeing, participation and security of older people
- HelpAge International, 2003
- Pensions play a key role in old age support systems, but research and debate on pension policy has so far focused on contributory pension programmes. Noncontributory pension programmes can be found in only a handful of developing coun...
- Trends in formulating South Africa's trade policy
- P. Draper / Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003
- This paper argues that trade liberalisation is appropriate in South Africa subject to the need to maintain social stability. The author recommends that the state must play an active role, in collaboration with business and key civil s...
- Efficiency or equality? Dilemmas of regulation and competition policy in South Africa
- Erwin Schwella / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- As vital sectors of the South African economy are restructured, can regulation and competition policies meet the post-apartheid challenges of redressing ingrained inequality and widening opportunities to participate in the economy? Is...
- Dream models? Health services during social change
- Gerald Bloom / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Which provides the best health service, the ‘American’ model or the ‘European’ model? According to a report by the UK Institute of Development Studies, neither example is useful for countries undergoing rapid socia...
- Flying software: is the Information Society heading South?
- Richard Heeks / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- In 1998, developing countries will export around US$3bn-worth of computer software to Western markets, making use of telecommunication networks - a conspicuous signal that Information Society benefits can be global. However, such 'hea...
- How could a 'global social movement' type of unionism emerge in South Africa
- A. Bezuidenhout / International Labour Organization, 2000
- This case study surveys the response of the South African labour movement to globalisation. It attempts to indicate how far unions in South Africa have maintained their position with respect to traditional constituent demands, whether...
- Why the UK government should end its support for an investment agreement at the WTO Ministerial Conference
- ActionAid International, 2003
- This paper presents Actionaids response to the issues surroundings the Cancun Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), to be held in September 2003. ActionAid is concerned that an investment agreement negot...
- The mixed successes of Norwegian funding to South Africa
- E.N. Tjønneland; P. Pillay / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2003
- The study provides an overview and an assessment of the Norwegian development assistance to South Africa since the first democratic elections in 1994. The report finds that nearly one billion Norwegian kroner were disbursed fro...
- A review of economic impacts of and response to HIV/AIDS in South Africa
- K. Kelly; W. Parker; S. Gelb / Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation, South Africa, 2002
- This review of economic research on HIV/AIDS in South Africa states that its aims were: to identify completed and ongoing research conducted on the economic aspects of HIV/AIDS and its implications for governance in Sou...
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