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THE FOURTH MEETING OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT (UNCTAD) IN NAIROBI IN MAY 1976 SAW THE OFFICIAL UNVEILING OF A PROPOSAL KNOWN AS THE 'INTEGRATED PROGRAMME FOR COMMODITIES', THE KEY ELEMENT IN WHICH WAS THE COMMON FUND. THE HISTORY OF THE COMMON FUND PROPOSAL TO FINANCE AN INTEGRATED COMMODITY PRICE SUPPORT SCHEME TELLS A GREAT DEAL ABOUT THE POLITICS OF THE DEVELOPED AND OF THE DEVELOPING WORLD, AND HOW RELATIONS BETWEEN THEM ARE MANAGED. THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES THE CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH LED TO THE FORMATION OF THE COMMON FUND, AND OFFERS A PROSPECTUS FOR SUCCESS OF ITS IMPLEMENTATION.

Introduction --The Age-old balance between host and parasite --Determinants of history, agents of human tragedy --The different paths to progress --Why worry in the Age of Miracles? --A worrisome future is not inevitable --1.How the world starts getting better --Death, disease, and the fall of prehistoric man --The path to better health in wealthier nations --A better world begins as a more unequal one --2. --Diseases of conquest and colony --The colonial and military roots of global health --The path to better health in poorer nations --Death and demography --The legacy of ebola --The difference that health aid makes --3.Diseases of childhood --A child survival revolution --China's other great leap forward --Is healthier wealthier? --The (potential) dividends of demography --Sunny in Nairobi, with a chance of storms --Cell phones, not factories --The perils of youth --4. --Diseases of settlement --Cholera and the white death --A simple solution --Poor world cities --The perils of growing naturally --Climate and the environment --The Tunis effect --Returning to Dhaka --5.Diseases of place --The growth industry in Agadez, Niger --People, not just potatoes --Migration as the history of disease --The world is getting better in worrisome ways --6. --The exoneration of William H. Stewart --Confronting the complex of multiple causation --The role of aid in adapting to the decline of infectious diseases --The myth of the good epidemic.

"Capital cities today remain central to both nations and states. They host centres of political power, not only national, but in some cases regional and global as well, thus offering major avenues to success, wealth and privilege. For these reasons capitals simultaneously become centres of "counter-power", locations of high-stakes struggles between the government and the opposition. This volume focuses on capital cities in nine sub-Saharan African countries, and traces how the power vested in them has evolved through different colonial backgrounds, radically different kinds of regimes after independence, waves of popular protest, explosive population growth and in most cases stunted economic development. Starting at the point of national political emancipation, each case study explores the complicated processes of nation-state building through its manifestation in the "urban geology" of the city - its architecture, iconography, layout and political use of urban space. Although the evolution of each of these cities is different, they share a critical demographic feature: an extraordinarily rapid process of urbanisation that is more politically than economically driven. Overwhelmed by the inevitable challenges resulting from this urban sprawl, the governments seated in most of these capital cities are in effect both powerful - wielding power over their populace -and powerless, lacking power to implement their plans and to provide for their inhabitants"--Publisher description

Africa is preparing for the next round of the climate talks. In this context a three day regional workshop for Eastern and Southern Africa on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has criticized the lack of commitment of industrial countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Organized by a Kenyan NGO - Climate Network Africa (CNA) - the meeting was intended to influence the African position at the forthcoming climate negotiations billed for Buenos Aires, Argentina, in November. (D+C/DÜI)

Introduction -- Exploring logistics competences and capabilities in not-for-profit environments : the case of Médecins Sans Frontières / Diego Vega, Neoma Business School and Cret-Log, France -- Setting up a supply chain network -- Setting up a humanitarian supply network / Graham Heaslip (HUMLOG Institute, Finland and Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, Ireland) and Gyöngyi Kovács (HUMLOG Institute) -- Service triad case study / Graham Heaslip, HUMLOG Institute, Finland and Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, Ireland -- Setting up a supply chain network in the Kenyan nutrition sector / Tunca Tabaklar (HUMLOG Institute, Helsinki, Finland) and Olivia Agutu (UNICEF Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya) -- Supply chain strategy -- Supply chain strategy / Ira Haavisto (HUMLOG Institute), Graham Heaslip (HUMLOG Institute and Galway Mayo Institute of Technology) and Paul Larson (University of Manitoba, Canada) -- Case study: partnerships : supply chain strategy / Graham Heaslip, Humlog Institute and Galway Mayo Institute of Technology -- Decision making in the supply chain -- Decision making in humanitarian logistics / Minchul Sohn (HUMLOG Institute, Finland), Eija Susanna Meriläinen (HUMLOG Institute) and David B Grant (HUMLOG Institute, Finland and Hull University Business School, UK) -- Forecasts, financing and acceleration of humanitarian logistics : from supply chain to value chain / Janot Mendler de Suarez, Pablo Suarez, Erin Coughlan de Perez and Dak Martin Doleagbenu, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Netherlands -- Procurement -- Procurement in humanitarian supply chains / Ala Pazirandeh, University of Gothenburg, Sweden -- Joint tender for freight-forwarding services : promises and pitfalls / Ala Pazirandeh (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and Heidi Herlin (HUMLOG Institute, Finland) -- A procurement project in the Philippines / Jonas Stumpf (HELP Logistics AG, Kuehne Foundation, Asia Office), Maximilian Foehse (HELP Logistics AG, Kuehne Foundation, Asia Office) and Tom Godfrey, Save the Children International -- Partnerships and innovative procurement as enablers for sustainable development goals / Rolando M Tomasini, Head of Global Outreach at the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) -- Transportation, fleet management, delivery and distribution -- Transport in humanitarian supply chains / Ruth Banomyong (Thammasat University, Thailand) and David B Grant (HUMLOG Institute, Finland and Hull University Business School, UK) -- Humanitarian aid supply corridors : Europe-Iraq / Anthony Beresford, Stephen Pettit and Ziad al Hashimi, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK -- Warehouse and inventory management -- Warehousing in humanitarian logistics / Alain Vaillancourt, HUMLOG Institute, Finland -- Gdacsmobile : an IT tool supporting assessments for humanitarian logistics / Bernd Hellingrath (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany) and Daniel Link (Chair for Information Systems and Supply Chain Management, University of Münster, Germany) -- Logistics competency for humanitarian relief : the case of Médecins sans Fontières / Diego Vega, NEOMA Business School, France -- Community-managed rural water supply in Ethiopia / Linda Annala, HUMLOG Institute, Finland -- Managing supply chain sustainability risks / Alexander Blecken, Anna Gaarde and Nives Costa, United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), Denmark -- Using three-dimensional printing in a humanitarian context : challenges and solutions / Peter Tatham (Department of International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith University, Australia) and Jennifer Loy (Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia) -- Making performance measurement work in humanitarian logistics : the case of an IT-supported balanced scorecard / Bernd Hellingrath (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany) and Adam Widera (Chair for Information Systems and Supply Chain Management, University of Münster, Germany) -- Boko haram : the security and supply chain management challenges of providing relief / Richard Oloruntoba, University of Newcastle, Australia -- References -- Index

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