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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><I
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face="Times New Roman">Engaging the health community in global economic
reform<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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face="Times New Roman">We live in a profoundly unequal world. Over-consumption
in wealthy countries sends us speeding toward environmental crisis, even as most
of the world’s people live on less than around $4 per day – the critical
threshold below which life expectancy is estimated to fall due to
poverty.</FONT><A title="" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1"
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face="Times New Roman"> The current global recession offers an even worse
prognosis for the world’s poor and the failed promise of health for
all.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman">But crisis also opens the way for change.
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face="Times New Roman">Answering this challenge, a new initiative – Economic
Governance for Health (EG4Health) – aims to harness the voice and public health
mandate of the global health community. In partnership with other civil society
groups, we seek fundamental reforms of the global economic system in favor of
just, climate-friendly and pro-health development.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman">At the root of EG4Health are three simple
points:<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman">The global economy is critically important to health,
especially in developing countries</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>f we hope to achieve
global health equity, we must first restore democracy and fair play to the
world’s economic system, free from the undue influence of wealth and powe<SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>The global health
community must engage with the required reforms to the governance of the
global economy<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></DIV></LI></UL>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Visit </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB><A
href="http://www.eg4health.org/"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">www.eg4health.org</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> and <A
href="http://www.eg4health.org/join-us/">add your voice</A> to a growing
movement of health professionals, academics, and advocates around the world who
believe that the time for change is now.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Edward P. The ethical
poverty line: a moral quantification of absolute poverty. <st1:place
w:st="on">Third World</st1:place> Quarterly
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