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This article examines the Cuban response to Ebola in West Africa, specifically in the three countries where the Cuban medical personnel focused their efforts – Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. It analyses the situation in West Africa as the disease rapidly spread, the international response and the Cuban reaction. In particular, it assesses the impact of Cuba's contribution and concludes with some thoughts about what can be learned from this short (6-month) campaign of the Henry Reeve Contingent, which specialises in responding to natural disasters and medical emergencies. The article finds that there are important lessons for the international community regarding responses to future outbreaks. Diseases such as Ebola do not respect international borders and cannot be overcome with promises of resources or money. In this case, Cuba's response – of a highly trained healthcare workforce of doctors, nurses, technicians and others – remains unique.

This article analyses Cuba's medical missions in the South Pacific and specifically in Timor-Leste (East Timor), the largest outside of Latin America. Here, the adaptation of Cuba's low-technology and low-resourced preventive-focused medical model (based on the development of human capital) is used to highlight lessons regarding effective medical cooperation. This article finds that these lessons should be drawn from the dynamic and creative adaptations of the Cuban medical model, which are assisting South Pacific medical systems by scaling up primary care workforces to target previously underserved areas. Thus, the contribution of Cuban medical personnel, bolstered by the education of indigenous South Pacific students (trained by Cuban professors, both in Havana and locally) has developed into unique medical models for South Pacific nations. Such models of cooperation are also clearly adaptable elsewhere.

Para muchos el análisis de los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio de las
Naciones Unidas (MDG en inglés) deja unas imágenes de comunidades pobres y
marginalizadas en el sur global que reciben apoyo financiero, préstamos, y apoyo
de varias ONG del norte global. Pero, ¿puede un país del sur global, con
recursos muy limitados, alcanza tanto los MDG como los Objetivos de Desarrollo
Sostenible (SDG en inglés), y hacerlo sin el apoyo, apoyo financiero del norte
global y la industria de desarrollo? El caso de Cuba, y su estrategia de
desarrollo sostenible, podría ofrecernos algunas pautas sobre la forma de
superar estos retos. En particular este artículo analiza los éxitos de Cuba al
cumplir con los objetivos, tanto de MDG como de SDG, en cuestiones de salud
pública, educación, igualdad de género y medio ambiente.

This article looks at the needs of children and families now that there is increasing inter‐agency conflict. The situation is considered from the perspective of one agency, educational psychology and it is suggested that the pressures on one agency are common to all agencies. It is argued that the impact of the changes imposed upon agencies conspires to enhance the power of systems and diminish opportunities for children and families to be in control. Examples of effective inter‐agency support and a model of working that facilitates positive outcomes for children and their families are discussed.

Cover -- Managing Reductions in Aid In.ows: Assessing Policy Choices in Haiti -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Aid Flows to Haiti -- 3 A Simple Static Model of Monetary Policy in Response to Aid Reductions -- 4 A Simple Dynamic Model of Aid Changes -- 5 A Full-Scale DSGE Model for Haiti -- 6 Conclusion.

In 2014, at the request of the Brazilian government and under the sponsorship ofPAHO, the Cuban government sent 11,400 doctors to work in underserved areas. This article examines the origins and development of this programme,Mais Médicos. The significance of this programme is explored, as well as what it illustrates about south‐south cooperation as a whole.

The authors contribute to the development of empirical methods for measuring the impacts of place-based local development strategies by introducing the adjusted interrupted time-series (AITS) approach. It estimates a more precise counterfactual scenario, thus offering a stronger basis for drawing causal inferences about impacts. The authors applied the AITS approach to three community development initiatives using single-family home prices as the outcome indicator and found that it could measure impacts on both the base level of prices and the rate of price appreciation. The authors also found a situation in which the method appears unreliable, however. The AITS approach benefits from more recurrent data on outcomes during the pre-and post-intervention periods, with an intertemporal pattern that avoids great volatility. The AITS approach to measuring effects of community development initiatives holds strong promise, with caveats.

'Mind the Gap!' is an almost iconic exhortation, originating in the London Underground, warning travellers to be careful when navigating the 'gap' between the platform and train. In this volume, Peter Carroll, Rex Deighton-Smith, Helen Silver and Chris Walker retrospectively assess the 'gap' — no less dynamic and perilous in a public policy context — between the promise and performance of successive waves of regulation in Australia since the 1980s. Regulatory bodies exist to exercise what might be broadly termed 'control functions' and, by nature, tend to be conservative both in their culture and operations. Institutional conservatism does not, of necessity, preclude the exercise of creativity and foresight, both of which are sorely required if government is to successfully meet the challenge of delivering more effective and less costly regulation. The business and policy environment is complex, the risks are great and the rewards of success and the costs of failure will be enormous. The true measure of success will be how effectively we are able to close the gap between promise and performance.

While scrutinizing the principle pressures and influences of Cuba's key international relationships and issues, Cuban International Relations at 60 examines the island's global engagement and foreign policy since January 1959 by bringing together the perspectives of leading experts and personal accounts of two ambassadors.