The Poverty Fight

Rigged Rules And Double Standards – Trade, Globalisation And The Fight Against Poverty

The Oxfam report is a useful contribution to the debate on the contribution of trade to development and poverty eradication. In general it presents an analysis which is remarkably similar to the EU’s own. Although some nuances and policy conclusions may be slightly different, that is an inevitable result of our respective roles in this debate. Given the overall quality of the report, it is unfo...

Building a global schistosomiasis alliance: an opportunity to join forces to fight inequality and rural poverty

Schistosomiasis, one of the 17 neglected tropical diseases listed by the World Health Organization, presents a substantial public health and economic burden. Of the 261 million people requiring preventive chemotherapy for schistosomiasis in 2013, 92% of them lived in sub-Saharan Africa and only 12.7% received preventive chemotherapy. Moreover, in 2010, the WHO reported that schistosomiasis mort...

The Fight for Fluoridation

THE PHYSIOLOGY OF FISHES. Volume 2, BEHAVIOR. Margaret E. Brown, Ed. New York, Academic Press Inc., 1957. xi, 526 pp. $14.00. The second volume of the series Physiology of Fishes deals with a wide variety of subjects under the common heading of Behavior. This misleading title is unfortunate, but the contents are a very pleasant surprise. Included are chapters dealing with: nerve system (central...

The Fight against Poliomyelitis

The Fight against Poliomyelitis