This paper argues that recent increases in international food prices worsened poverty incidence in Indonesia, even though many poor farmers benefited. This conclusion is based on the application of a multi-sectoral, multihousehold general equilibrium model of the Indonesian economy. The positive effect on the welfare of poor farmers was exceeded by the negative effect on poor consumers. Indones...

Boyd and Mao (“On a Limitation of BAN Logic”, in these proceedings) suggest that it is easy to use the authentication logic of Burrows, Abadi and Needham to approve protocols that are in practice unsound, and present two examples. We illustrate that the problem in the first example can be traced to a violation of pre-conditions in the BAN analysis (involving ill-founded trust in a trusted serve...

oad crashes kill nearly 1.3 million people every year, and leave millions moreinjured or permanently disabled. Impaired driving, unsafe roads and other dangersshatter lives in a matter of seconds. The Decade can help thwart this needless loss of life. “I call on Member States, international agencies, civil society organizations, businesses and community leaders and people everywhere to ensure t...

I welcome the latest issue of the Health and Human Rights Journal with a Special Section on Tuberculosis (TB) and the Right to Health. TB is indeed a major challenge to global health. It is one of the most serious impediments to the attainment of the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that recognise the interdependence of health and development. SDG 3 aims to “attain healthy lives and wel...

Volume 4 • Issue 5 • 1000156 J Blood Disorders Transf ISSN: 2155-9864 JBDT, an open access journal Invasive Mould Disease – Predictive Risk Factors in Acute Leukemia Patients Receiving Intensive Chemotherapy and its Impact on Survival Gee Chuan Wong1*, Jenny GH Low2, Nidhi L Chlebicka2 and Ban Hock Tan2 1Department of Haematology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore 2Department of Infectious ...

In March 2010, UN-Secretary General Ban Ki-moon challenged member states to increase their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): ‘the lack of commitment increases the likelihood of a failure’. Nevertheless, there are positive signs: when it comes to eradication of extreme poverty, important progress has been made. Access to basic education, equity between men and women at ...

Currently the United Nations are negotiating the next generation of global development goals: the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for the Post 2015 agenda. The previous 10 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) (United Nations Millennium Declaration, 2000) have helped to accelerate development in many lowand middleincome countries (LAMICs) (United Nations, 2013). While ‘‘[t]here have been ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of a partial smoking ban followed by a total smoking ban in a psychiatric hospital in Switzerland. METHODS In 2003, smoking was allowed everywhere in psychiatric units. In 2004, smoking was prohibited everywhere except in smoking rooms. In 2006, smoking rooms were removed and smoking was totally prohibited indoors. Patients and staff were surveyed in 2003 (n=106...