The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2010–2011 Four weeks after the beginning of the nuclear crisis on Japan’s east coast, the situation at the country’s Fukushima Daiichi power plant remains far from stabilized. The damaged reactors continue to leak radioactivity, and although it is impossible to predict the overall impact of the disaster, the consequences for the international nuclear industry will be devastating. Mycle Schneider, Antony Froggatt, and Steve Thomas have again performed a vital public service by preparing this uniquely independent, thorough, and timely assessment of the global status of nuclear power, both before and after the Fukushima disaster began to unfold on March 11, 2011.
Mark Weisbrot, Jose Cordero, Luis Sandoval:"Empowering the IMF: Should Reform be a Requirement for Increasing the Fund’s Resources?" In the last major set of economic crisis in 1990s the IMF made some serious mistakes that adversely affected the economies of many countries. Instead of acting as a lender of last resort, when it was most urgently needed, the Fund imposed procyclical policies and in (some cases) set unrealistic inflation targets that would be impossible to achieve, given the currency depreciation, without a severe economic contradiction
Gender Action Link: "Gender, IFIs and Extractive Industries" Women and girls, who are living in communities affected by extractive projects bear the brunt of environmental, social and economic impacts. Women for example mostly face livelihood loss, increased carework, forced prostitution and human traffiking, rape and sexually transmitted diseases due to the presence of extractive industries in their communities
A.Erinç Yeldan: "Turkey and the Long Decade with The IMF: 1998-2008" Turkey′s post-crisis adjustments under the AKP administration traces the steps of many developing countries, which are dependent on foreign capital and are conditioned to adopt or maintain contradictonary policies. In order to secure ″investor confidence″ and ″international creditworthiness″, Turkey maintained high real rates of interest in anticipation of increased foreign capital inflow into the domestic economy
Korinna Horta: ‘Rights and Development- What Progress at the World´s largest Aid Agency?’ Today, the debate and advocacy about human rights has spread beyond its initial confines to numerious fields of action, though it´s unclear to which extent this change in attitude will impact governments an institutions, such as the World Bank. Looking at the institution of the World Bank today, it can be said,that most of its commitments to human rights has been largely rhetorical so far
Actionaid: "Where does it hurt? The impact of the financial crisis on developing countries" Especially developing and low- and middle-income countries respectively are hit by the financial crisis in a heavy way, although they mostly did not play a vital role according to the dynamic processes which led to this situation.'The crisis' actually implies two components: a financial an a recession one. Not the fiscial system is hitting these countries in a harsh way, but the lack of trade with the high income countries
Rania Antonopoulos: "The Current Economic and Financial Crisis: A Gender Perspective" History shows that financial crisis have been distinctly harsh on women and poor. Especially when it comes to instability of jobs, women are hit harder than men, which is mostly connected with the sectors female workers are employed, aswell related with political inequity women in most societies still have to deal with. Summary of “The Current Economic and Financial Crisis: A Gender Perspective” by Rania Antonopoulos, March 20, 2009
"IMF Voting Shares: No Plans for Significant Changes" Mark Weisbrot and Jake Johnston Looking at the structure of the IMF governance it seems that it is much more a reflection of the world of 1944, when it was established, than of the world today. A hugh mismatch between the ′Northern countries′ and the mid- and low- income countries, with a dominant position of the USA according to the decision-making process, can stil be seen
Gender and Climate Finance: Double mainstreaming for sustainable development - Ekoloji There can not be any fair and equitable global climate agreement, if there will not be a comprehensive global climate financing understanding, And the latter can only have a fair, equitable and comprehensive character, if it includes and incorporates gender awareness and strives toward gender equitable climate financing solutions
IATP AG HBS: "Opportunities to integrate solutions to water, agriculture and climate crisis in global processes" There is an interrelationsship between the crises of climate, food and water, whereas can be seen as the mediated component of all three harms. Building on this assumption, it can be claimed that there is an essential need for redesigning the agriculture sector. What policies and practices are needed to ensure food security for all, to help individuals realize their “right to food” and ”right to water,” in a climate challenged world?