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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt">[Courtesy f Dr David Zakus]</p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Times">The Truth About Extreme Global Inequality</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">The crisis of capital, the rise of the Occupy movement and the
crash of Southern Europe have brought the problem of income inequality into
mainstream consciousness in the West for the first time in many decades. Now
everyone is talking about how the richest 1 percent have captured such a
disproportionate share of wealth in their respective countries. This point came
crashing home once again when an animated video, illustrating wealth
disparities in the US, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times">went viral </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">last month. When an </span><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">infographic
catches the attention of tens of millions of internet users, you know it is
hitting a nerve.</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">But the </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times">global </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">scale of inequality remains </span><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">largely
absent from this story. So we at </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times">/The Rules </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">decided to put
together a </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times">video </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">that
would give it some </span><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">attention.</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">For more details: <span style="color:rgb(0,36,245)"><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/
opinion/2013/04/201349124135226392.html">http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/
opinion/2013/04/201349124135226392.html</a> </span></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT";color:rgb(0,36,245)">You have to click on this link and then click on
the Links for the short videos in the text. Unbelievable.</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT";color:rgb(0,36,245)">Xxx</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(34,80,15)">The Charitable-Industrial Complex</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">I HAD spent much of my life writing music for commercials, film
and television and knew little about the world of philan- thropy as practiced
by the very wealthy until what I call the big bang happened in 2006. That year,
my father, Warren Buffett, made good on his commitment to give nearly all of
his accumu- lated wealth back to society. In addition to making several large
donations, he added generously to the three foundations that my parents had
created years earli- er, one for each of their children to run.</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Early on in our philanthropic journey, my wife and I became
aware of something I started to call Philanthropic Colonialism. I noticed that
a donor had the urge to “save the day” in some fashion. People (including me)
who had very little knowledge of a particular place would think that they could
solve a local problem. Whether it involved farming methods, education
practices, job training or busi- ness development, over and over I would hear
people discuss transplanting what worked in one setting directly into another
with little regard for culture, geography or societal norms.</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Often the results of our deci- sions had unintended conse-
quences; distributing condoms to stop the spread of AIDS in a brothel area
ended up creating a higher price for unprotected sex.</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">For more details:</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT";color:rgb(0,36,245)"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/
opinion/the-charitable-industrial-">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/
opinion/the-charitable-industrial-</a> complex.html?
nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130 727&_r=1&</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:Times">xxx</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(183,135,37)">The Future of Food Aid</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">By the end of the next decade food
security could deteriorate in some of the world’s poorest countries, according
to a recent global fore- cast by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">By 2023 the number of food- insecure
people is likely to increase by nearly 23 percent to 868 million (at a slightly
faster rate than pro- jected population growth of 16 percent), said USDA’s
Economic Research Service which focused on 76 low- and middle-income coun-
tries classified by the World Bank as being on food aid, experiencing food
insecurity, or as having expe- rienced it.</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">In countries most likely to see a significant
rise in the number of food-insecure people, such as Mala- wi and Uganda, the
production and import of food will not be able to keep pace with population
growth. Despite improvements over the years, sub-Saharan Africa is pro- jected
to remain the most food- insecure region in the world.</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">In the past decade global food aid,
including the amount making its way to sub-Saharan Africa, has been on a
downward trend. Only 2.5 million tons reached sub- Saharan Africa in 2011,
whereas during the decade as a whole it ranged from just under three mil lion
tons to just over 5 million tons, according to USDA, citing World Food
Programme (WFP) data.</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">The face of food aid has also begun to
change. In the past decade, “food aid” has begun to evolve into “food
assistance”, which includes help provided in the form of cash and vouchers for
people in need. This can save millions of dollars in transportation and storage
costs.</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">For more details:</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT";color:rgb(0,36,245)"><a href="http://m.irinnews.org/
Report/98469/Analysis-The-future-">http://m.irinnews.org/
Report/98469/Analysis-The-future-</a> of-food-aid#.Ui4dYJKvN8E</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:Times">xxx</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(34,80,15)">UN HR Council Resolution on Access to
Medicines</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Last month, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a
resolution “Access to medi- cines in the context of the right of everyone to
the enjoyment of the highest attainable stand- ard of physical and mental
health “urging the member countries to develop a policy framework on medicines
en- couraging local production of medicines with the aim of en- suring
long-term accessibility and affordability of medicines.</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">The resolution also referred to use provisions of the Agree-
ment on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights which provide
flexibility, recog- nizing that the protection of intellectual property is im-
portant for the development of new medicines, as well as the concerns about its
effects on prices. It also impressed on voluntary transfer of technology to
developing countries and delinkage of the costs of re search and development
and the price of health products.</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">For more details:</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT";color:rgb(0,36,245)">http://
donttradeourlive-
<a href="http://saway.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/un-human-">saway.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/un-human-</a></span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:Times">xxx</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(34,80,15)">Global Health Versus Private Profit</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">John Lister is well-known as a researcher,
writer and campaigner against cutbacks and privatization in the NHS. But his
new book Global Health Versus Private Profit focus- es on the changes taking
place in global health care systems. It has received glowing endorsements from
a number of specialists in the field, and described as “penetrating, highly
readable, and extremely well researched”. We caught up with John and asked him
to talk about the book.</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Can you sum up the book’s main point in
two sentences?</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Market-style reforms result in health care
systems that are more unequal, more costly, more frag- mented and less
accountable – but which offer more profits to the private sector. That’s why
the question really is whether we want to see global health – or private
profit.</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Who will be interested in reading the
book?</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">This book is for all those working to
achieve universal access to health care, and anyone interested in the evolution
of international health and the different ways in which the I also hope it
might be read by some of the people work- ing for the institutions assessed in
the book including the WHO, World Bank (and especially IFC), for national
health care systems and for NGOs and donor agen- cies. My analysis is based on
re- search, analysis, literature and evidence, and I would be delighted to see
a debate on issues which people find contentious.</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">For more details:</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT";color:rgb(0,36,245)"><a href="http://www.globalhealthcheck.org/?
utm_source=Global+Health+Check&ut">http://www.globalhealthcheck.org/?
utm_source=Global+Health+Check&ut</a> m_campaign=e1dba51e92-
Glob-
al+Health+Check+email&utm_medium</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
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