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O condicionamento, definido pelo alinhamento dos princípios da mundialização liberal, é omnipresente: favorizar a liberalização, abrir os mercados, tornar-se atrativo para os investidores estrangeiros privados. Super creditar que os meios de controle político pela tríade Estados Unidos, Europa e (…)

With the government incapable of designing Nepal’s school education, bilateral and multilateral donors are forced to step in. As a result, Nepali education has for decades lurched from one internationally assisted mega-project to another. Read more

Under the title “Haiti: Microcosm of the crisis of development”, issue 467 of Pambazuka News, "the authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa", features several articles on the Haiti quake, its causes and the political lessons to be drawn from this (…)

Four years on from nef’s “Growth isn’t Working”, this new report goes one step further and tests that thesis in detail in the context of climate change and energy. It argues that indefinite global economic growth is unsustainable. Just as the laws of thermodynamics constrain the maximum (…)

Mientras en México continúe el aumento de desempleo y del empleo informal, problemáticas que afectan sobre todo a mujeres y jóvenes, no se puede hablar de una recuperación económica. Por el contrario, de no tomarse las medidas necesarias el impacto de la crisis persistirá por varios años más, (…)

This report takes a new approach to looking at the value of work. We go beyond how much different professions are paid to look at what they contribute to society. We use some of the principles and valuation techniques of Social Return on Investment analysis to quantify the social, environmental (…)

This report outlines lessons learnt regarding the principal effects of climate change on 15 cities in low-income countries, and what makes them vulnerable to these effects. Coastal cities are susceptible to a rise in sea level and are made vulnerable by the low-lying land they are often built (…)

While the achievement of universal ontological rights in South Africa has been a marvellous step forward, writes Jason Hickel, the paradigm of a rights-based revolution is seriously and fundamentally flawed, and cannot serve the ends that South Africa intends it to. Cautioning that the state can (…)

Kenyan researcher Joseph Juma Musakali asks what African research institutes can do to exploit the open access movement. Read more

SciDev.net publishes a spotlight on the challenge of improving nutrition in the developing world.
More than a billion people in developing countries suffer from malnutrition, increasing the risk of disease and death, and reducing long-term economic productivity and development. But (…)

« L’une des plus grandes opérations d’aide de l’histoire » risque fort de ressembler à celle de l’après tsunami de 2004 sauf si un modèle de reconstruction radicalement différent est adopté. Mardi soir, Haïti a été partiellement détruite suite à un violent séisme de magnitude 7. Chacun y va de (…)

A história do assédio contra o Haiti, que nos nossos dias tem dimensões de tragédia, é também uma história do racismo na civilização ocidental. Em 1803 os negros do Haiti deram uma tremenda sova nas tropas de Napoleão Bonaparte e a Europa jamais perdoou esta humilhação infligida à raça branca. O (…)

Il aura fallu une échauffourée avec les villageois pour que le « block development officer » (agent de développement de bloc) du teshil de Mahkar dans le district de Buldhana comprenne pourquoi les toilettes communautaires ne rencontraient pas de succès dans le Vidarbha rural (Maharashtra). Deux (…)

O Centro de Teatro do Oprimido realiza no Brasil, Guiné-Bissau e Moçambique, países da África lusófona, de janeiro a maio de 2010, o Laboratório Madalena. Trata-se de uma experiência cênica voltada exclusivamente para mulheres empenhadas em investigar as especificidades das opressões enfrentadas (…)

Les fermes industrielles en Europe sont intimement liées aux forêts d’Amérique du Sud par un lien secret, une chaîne de destructions qui va des immenses plantations de soja à nos élevages européens de cochons et de poulets, anéantissant la vie sauvage et aggravant la crise climatique.
Des (…)

Objetivo do governo é consolidar etanol como commodity. Transferência de conhecimento e investimentos são acompanhados de potenciais impactos sobre a vida de trabalhadores, comunidades tradicionais e meio ambiente
Para que o etanol de cana-de-açúcar se torne uma commodity, é preciso ampliar o (…)

The countries and regions of the world are becoming increasingly polarised in spite of their international commitments to fight poverty. This is what emerges from the 2009 Basic Capabilities Index (BCI) published today by Social Watch, an international network of citizens’ organizations whose (…)

Twenty two per cent of Orissa’s population are tribals, and another 16 per cent are dalits, both highly vulnerable communities. Therefore, proper mapping of BPL (Below Poverty Line) families is important, as it serves as the lifeline for many. But the BPL politics at the central level is skewed, (…)

PRIYA BABU has been working for the welfare of transsexuals as the leader of the Tamil Nadu Aravanigal Association and the managing trustee of the Social Integration and Development for Aravanis Foundation (SIDA). She hit the headlines five years ago when she filed a writ petition in the Madras (…)

Après les OGM, les nanotechnologies s’invitent dans notre assiette : les nano-aliments, traités avec des nano-pesticides et contenus dans des nano-emballages, se multiplient. A la clé : de faramineux profits financiers pour les industriels et des risques environnementaux et sanitaires (…)