Data infrastructure policy: Ensuring equitable access for poor people and poor countries

2021 ◽  
pp. 155-183
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Poor People ◽  
Equitable Access ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Infrastructure Policy

scholarly journals Global economy and its sustainability in the globalized world

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 04008
Author(s):  
Jorma Jaakko Imppola
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Global Sustainability ◽  
Distribution Of Wealth ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Rich Countries ◽  
Globalized World

Globalized economy has changed the whole world both in good and in bad. The changes in economy have significant impact on the everyday life, which affect practically everyone. Because the economy, monetary systems and financial markets form the operational platform of the globalized world, it is necessary to understand their role. As the economy is one of the three main pillars of the sustainability, it is impossible to develop the global sustainability without stabile and sustainable economy. The inequality of the distribution of wealth and prosperity is the most critical factor of economic sustainability and the ever-increasing accumulation of wealth and money is one of the most crucial factors jeopardising the global sustainability. People and nations struggling economically are usually having the biggest challenges with both social and environmental sustainability. Wealth works dually: it enables rich people and nations to increase their consumption footprint and they hinder poor people and nations to make consumer decisions and investments needed to improve sustainability. The rich countries have outsourced their unsustainable industrial activities to poor countries having undeveloped legislation and maximized their profits by utilising these socially and ecologically unsustainable labour and production practises, which most are illegal in the rich countries.

From Hundreds to Billions of Dollars of Income

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Francis Teal
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Us ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Global Growth

This is a book about inequality. About the fact that we live in a world of very many poor people and a very few extremely rich ones—the poor and the plutocrats of its title. In this chapter we frame the question posed by the book—how one can move from such poverty to such riches?—using data from the UK, the US, and poor countries. If a longer term, and comparative, perspective is taken on incomes and inequality the problem is not to explain a rising tide of poverty—there isn’t one—nor is it to explain how capitalism generates ever-increasing inequality—it hasn’t. The problem is much more complicated. How can we explain such large changes in both incomes and in inequality as have occurred since the start of sustained global growth in the early part of the nineteenth century?

12. Human Rights and Politics in Development

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Right To Development ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Right ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses the importance of politics to the relationship between human rights and development. It describes the two major ways in which human rights struggles have focused on development processes in the last two decades: the right to development, the struggles of poor countries for a better deal in the global economic system; and the human rights-based approach to development, the struggles of poor people for development to realize their rights. The chapter first considers the links between human rights, politics, and development before analysing the concepts and debates surrounding the right to development and the human rights-based approach to development. It then presents a case study on the Millennium Development Goals and the successor, Sustainable Development Goals, to illustrate how human rights principles are raised in contemporary debates on development priorities.

Removal of selected microorganisms using silver-impregnated and coated, low-cost, micro-porous, ceramic water filters

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Simonis ◽  
Muzi Ndwandwe ◽  
Albert Basson ◽  
Tlou Selepe
Keyword(s):  
Pathogenic Bacteria ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Porous Ceramic ◽  
Nano Particles ◽  
Ceramic Filter ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Ceramic Surface ◽  
Household Water Treatment ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Ceramic Water Filters

There is great need to purify the contaminated water which the poor people in Africa have access to, and make it safe for drinking in a way that is affordable and effective. A particular challenge is the removal of pathogenic bacteria and viruses, which traditionally are eliminated by expensive nano-filtration or reverse osmosis. An added requirement is satisfying the recent recommendation of the WHO for household water-treatment systems to eliminate 99.99% of microbial contamination, which is proving exceptionally difficult to achieve in poor countries at a cost they can afford. We report on the successful testing of a low-cost, locally produced ceramic filter that has the potential to meet the WHO criterion at a cost of US$10 per year. In one version the filter consisted of a silver-impregnated, highly porous ceramic; in another modification silver nano particles were incorporated on the ceramic surface. The silver-impregnated filter was tested on water samples contaminated with selected Gram negative bacteria: Escherichia coli, Proteus mirabilis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, for its oligodynamic effect and for its effective reduction of bacteriophages. The ceramic filters reduced the viral count by 94–99% and we believe that, with further development, our prototype is easily capable of achieving the WHO criterion.

Poor People’s Politics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Fox Piven ◽  
Lorraine C. Minnite
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Political Action ◽  
The Political ◽  
Poor People ◽  
The West ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
The Poor ◽  
American Case ◽  
The Welfare State

This article examines how political action by poor people can influence public policy. It begins with a critique of theories about poverty policy development for the poor as well as the political agency of the poor before discussing the dissensus politics arguments of Piven and Cloward. It then considers how globalization and the neoliberal assault on the welfare state are producing limited conditions of convergence between rich and poor countries with respect to policy, including countries in the West and in Latin America. It also offers suggestions aimed at addressing the neglect of poor people’s politics by focusing specifically on the American case, while also suggesting the relevance of that case to other societies. It asserts that the politics of the poor that stem from their interdependent power and their disruptive actions, as well as the policy consequences, can look different depending on the changing institutional and political context.

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