Defending Water Justice and Democracy / Mary Ann Manahan  

Public ISBD Titre : Defending Water Justice and Democracy : Alternatives to Commercialization and Privatization of Water in Asia Type de document : document électronique Auteurs : Mary Ann Manahan, Auteur ; Buenaventura Dargantes, Auteur ; Cheryl Batistel Editeur : Focus on the Global South Année de publication : September 2012 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Alternatives Libéralisation Tags : Eau  Asie  Alternatives  Service public  Bien public  ODM Résumé : The Asian people’s access to supplied water has improved dramatically since the 1990’s, with an 84 percent increase in access being noted in from 1990 to 2006, exceeding even the MDG targets. But this water supply cannot be guaranteed safe even as big business interests in crisis-ridden Europe are now posing a threat to Asia’s access to publicly supplied water. En ligne : https://focusweb.org/defending-water-justice-and-democracy-alternatives-to-comme [...] Defending Water Justice and Democracy : Alternatives to Commercialization and Privatization of Water in Asia [document électronique] / Mary Ann Manahan, Auteur ; Buenaventura Dargantes, Auteur ; Cheryl Batistel . - [S.l.] : Focus on the Global South, September 2012. Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Alternatives Libéralisation Tags : Eau  Asie  Alternatives  Service public  Bien public  ODM Résumé : The Asian people’s access to supplied water has improved dramatically since the 1990’s, with an 84 percent increase in access being noted in from 1990 to 2006, exceeding even the MDG targets. But this water supply cannot be guaranteed safe even as big business interests in crisis-ridden Europe are now posing a threat to Asia’s access to publicly supplied water. En ligne : https://focusweb.org/defending-water-justice-and-democracy-alternatives-to-comme [...]

Global water justice movement call to action for governments on the implementation of the human right to water    

Public ISBD Titre : Global water justice movement call to action for governments on the implementation of the human right to water Type de document : document électronique Editeur : Focus on the Global South Année de publication : mars 2012 Langues : Anglais (eng) Tags : Eau  Droit de l'eau  Mouvements sociaux  Justice sociale Résumé : As members of the water justice movement gathered in Marseille, France to mobilize against the 6th World Water Forum, we issue this statement which also carries the voices of many from around the world who have not come to Marseille. We are in Marseille to give voice to the positive agenda of global water justice movements. We are here to oppose the corporate driven World Water Forum, which poses as a multi-stakeholder platform on water policy. En ligne : http://focusweb.org/content/global-water-justice-movement-call-action-government [...] Global water justice movement call to action for governments on the implementation of the human right to water [document électronique] . - [S.l.] : Focus on the Global South, mars 2012. Langues : Anglais (eng) Tags : Eau  Droit de l'eau  Mouvements sociaux  Justice sociale Résumé : As members of the water justice movement gathered in Marseille, France to mobilize against the 6th World Water Forum, we issue this statement which also carries the voices of many from around the world who have not come to Marseille. We are in Marseille to give voice to the positive agenda of global water justice movements. We are here to oppose the corporate driven World Water Forum, which poses as a multi-stakeholder platform on water policy. En ligne : http://focusweb.org/content/global-water-justice-movement-call-action-government [...]

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Lessons of Transparency from EITI. / Kees Visser    

Public ISBD Titre : Lessons of Transparency from EITI. : A"Report"for"Focus"on"the"Global"South Type de document : document électronique Auteurs : Kees Visser, Auteur Editeur : Focus on the Global South Année de publication : April 2010 Importance : 30 p Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Industrie minière Corruption Tags : Ressources naturelles  Industrie minière  Transparence  Environnement  Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI  Banque mondiale  Pays en développement Résumé : Since first being announced a decade ago, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has been heralded as a revolutionary solution to corruption and related difficulties that extractive industries bring to developing countries. While it could be argued that the EITI provides information that can be useful for well-intentioned policy- makers and others, claims that the EITI provides levels of transparency that are needed to truly address corruption, let alone a device that can address larger problems presented by resource extraction, are grossly overstating EITI’s limited benefits. By limiting the discussion to transparency of government revenue and in-country company payments, EITI overlooks essential issues, from whether resource extraction is worth the human and environmental impacts, to how to distribute resource revenues. At the same time, given its voluntary nature and disregard of serious problems such as tax avoidance, the EITI fails to bring meaningful transparency into the resource industry. Unfortunately, rather than ending the “resource curse”, the EITI is primarily successful in deflecting criticisms away from the World Bank and the extractive industry while concentrating the burdens and the blame on the governments of resource-rich countries. En ligne : http://focusweb.org/sites/www.focusweb.org/files/occ12.pdf Lessons of Transparency from EITI. : A"Report"for"Focus"on"the"Global"South [document électronique] / Kees Visser, Auteur . - [S.l.] : Focus on the Global South, April 2010 . - 30 p. Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Industrie minière Corruption Tags : Ressources naturelles  Industrie minière  Transparence  Environnement  Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI  Banque mondiale  Pays en développement Résumé : Since first being announced a decade ago, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has been heralded as a revolutionary solution to corruption and related difficulties that extractive industries bring to developing countries. While it could be argued that the EITI provides information that can be useful for well-intentioned policy- makers and others, claims that the EITI provides levels of transparency that are needed to truly address corruption, let alone a device that can address larger problems presented by resource extraction, are grossly overstating EITI’s limited benefits. By limiting the discussion to transparency of government revenue and in-country company payments, EITI overlooks essential issues, from whether resource extraction is worth the human and environmental impacts, to how to distribute resource revenues. At the same time, given its voluntary nature and disregard of serious problems such as tax avoidance, the EITI fails to bring meaningful transparency into the resource industry. Unfortunately, rather than ending the “resource curse”, the EITI is primarily successful in deflecting criticisms away from the World Bank and the extractive industry while concentrating the burdens and the blame on the governments of resource-rich countries. En ligne : http://focusweb.org/sites/www.focusweb.org/files/occ12.pdf

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Taming the tigers / Nicola Bullard  

Public ISBD Titre : Taming the tigers : The IMF and the Asian Crisis Type de document : document électronique Auteurs : Nicola Bullard, Auteur ; Walden Bello, Auteur ; Kamal Malhotra Editeur : Focus on the Global South Année de publication : March 1998 Autre Editeur : Catholic Fund for Overseas Development (CAFOD) Importance : 36 p Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Asie Banques Tags : FMI  Asia  Crise économique et financière  Banques  Banque mondiale  Economie internationale  Libéralisation  Investissements  Environnement  Forêts  Pauvreté  Agriculture  Gouvernance Résumé : Report begins by describing what actually happened in the three worst hit countries of Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea. It goes on to explore the human impact of the crisis. These chapters provide the material for a detailed analysis of the IMF’s role, and of the numerous failings in its performance to date. The report concludes with recommendations for reform of the Bretton Woods institutions, and the international financial system. Criticising the solutions imposed by the IMF in no way implies an uncritical endorsement of Asian development models. The political and economic systems in these countries have brought improvements in health, education and living standards. But the cost has been high in terms of sharpening the divide between rich and poor, environmental exploitation and loss of community control over natural resources, and growth without economic democracy or the expansion of political participation. Rather this report demonstrates that the IMF does not have a monopoly of social or economic wisdom (far from it). If the Fund’s neoliberal crusaders can be reined in, and alternatives explored, the crisis can offer Asia the chance to forge democratic and sustainable alternatives to the ruinous development path of recent years. If not, then ordinary Asians could come to look back on the 1970s and 1980s as a golden era. That would indeed by a tragic testament to the failings of the "rescue packages" of 1997. En ligne : https://focusweb.org/publications/1998/Taming%20the%20Tigers-The%20IMF%20and%20t [...] Format de la ressource électronique : http://www.eldis.org/document/A26464 Taming the tigers : The IMF and the Asian Crisis [document électronique] / Nicola Bullard, Auteur ; Walden Bello, Auteur ; Kamal Malhotra . - [S.l.] : Focus on the Global South : [S.l.] : Catholic Fund for Overseas Development (CAFOD), March 1998 . - 36 p. Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Asie Banques Tags : FMI  Asia  Crise économique et financière  Banques  Banque mondiale  Economie internationale  Libéralisation  Investissements  Environnement  Forêts  Pauvreté  Agriculture  Gouvernance Résumé : Report begins by describing what actually happened in the three worst hit countries of Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea. It goes on to explore the human impact of the crisis. These chapters provide the material for a detailed analysis of the IMF’s role, and of the numerous failings in its performance to date. The report concludes with recommendations for reform of the Bretton Woods institutions, and the international financial system. Criticising the solutions imposed by the IMF in no way implies an uncritical endorsement of Asian development models. The political and economic systems in these countries have brought improvements in health, education and living standards. But the cost has been high in terms of sharpening the divide between rich and poor, environmental exploitation and loss of community control over natural resources, and growth without economic democracy or the expansion of political participation. Rather this report demonstrates that the IMF does not have a monopoly of social or economic wisdom (far from it). If the Fund’s neoliberal crusaders can be reined in, and alternatives explored, the crisis can offer Asia the chance to forge democratic and sustainable alternatives to the ruinous development path of recent years. If not, then ordinary Asians could come to look back on the 1970s and 1980s as a golden era. That would indeed by a tragic testament to the failings of the "rescue packages" of 1997. En ligne : https://focusweb.org/publications/1998/Taming%20the%20Tigers-The%20IMF%20and%20t [...] Format de la ressource électronique : http://www.eldis.org/document/A26464

The Challenge to Asia’s Social Movements / Walden Bello    

Public ISBD Titre : The Challenge to Asia’s Social Movements Type de document : document électronique Auteurs : Walden Bello, Auteur Editeur : Focus on the Global South Année de publication : August 2012 Langues : Anglais (eng) Tags : Mouvements sociaux  Asie Résumé : "This July was the hottest July in the United States ever since they started keeping records. In India, the monsoon rains are long delayed, resulting in the country’s second drought in four years. Triple digit temperatures in New Delhi and other cities have already provoked the worst power outages in the country’s history and the expected bad harvest is likely to slice at least five per cent from GDP growth. In Beijing, which usually suffers from a shortage of water, a storm on July 21 resulted in the worst flooding since records began to be kept in 1951, according to the Economist. Meantime, in the Philippines, a protracted “rainstorm with no name”—as many people termed it-- that persisted for over a week plunged Metropolitan Manila into a watery disaster that is probably the worst in recent history." (...) En ligne : http://focusweb.org/content/challenge-asia%E2%80%99s-social-movements The Challenge to Asia’s Social Movements [document électronique] / Walden Bello, Auteur . - [S.l.] : Focus on the Global South, August 2012. Langues : Anglais (eng) Tags : Mouvements sociaux  Asie Résumé : "This July was the hottest July in the United States ever since they started keeping records. In India, the monsoon rains are long delayed, resulting in the country’s second drought in four years. Triple digit temperatures in New Delhi and other cities have already provoked the worst power outages in the country’s history and the expected bad harvest is likely to slice at least five per cent from GDP growth. In Beijing, which usually suffers from a shortage of water, a storm on July 21 resulted in the worst flooding since records began to be kept in 1951, according to the Economist. Meantime, in the Philippines, a protracted “rainstorm with no name”—as many people termed it-- that persisted for over a week plunged Metropolitan Manila into a watery disaster that is probably the worst in recent history." (...) En ligne : http://focusweb.org/content/challenge-asia%E2%80%99s-social-movements

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