[EQ] Social Watch Report 2006

Social Watch Report 2006

Launched September 19 in Singapore, at the Annual Meetings of the
International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group.

Website: http://www.socialwatch.org/en/informeImpreso/informe2006.htm

This year's report refers to the urgent need to reform the current
international financial structure to fulfil national and international
commitments to eradicate poverty and promote gender equity.

Social Watch is an international coalition comprising 400 non-governmental
organizations in some 60 countries. Its annual report is the world's most
highly recognized independent study on social development.

MAPS AND GRAPHICS

The Poverty Map provides a quick, visual overview of the level of basic
capabilities in each country, while the Gender Equity Map reflects women's
situation around the world. Various graphics illustrate the estimated dates
for the achievement of the basic requisites needed to ensure a dignified
standard of living for all of the world's people.

     Table of contents

     Preface. Redesigning the financial architecture

      THEMATIC REPORTS

      Download the Thematic Reports section in one large file (751 kb).

     Multilateral financial institutions: overhauling development finance

     Exposing the myth and plugging the leaks

     Decentralization and sovereignty: how policy space is eroded

     Reclaiming development: streamline the Bretton Woods institutions

     From Monterrey to Basel: who rules the banks?

     Forever in your debt?

     Box: Latin America: debt, investment, capital flight

     Migrant worker remittances: a way out of poverty?

     International taxation: the time is ripe

     Box: Currency Transaction Tax

     Global tax evasion

     Beyond consultation: innovative sources

     The new aid modalities for MDG financing: will the European Union keep
its promises?

     Box: Some considerations regarding budget support

     Box: Gender budget initiatives in CEE/CIS region

     The Arab region: at the crossroad of development security and human
rights

     What if developing countries could finance poverty eradication from
their own public resources?

      MEASURING PROGRESS

      Download the Measuring Progress section in one large file (3242 kb)

     Ensuring basic capabilities, an essential task for development

     Poverty and inequality. A question of rights

     Food security. More and more people are going hungry

     Education. The challenge of universality

     Information, science and technology. Digital gap, people gap

     Public expenditure. Abysmal differences

     Development assistance. Discouraging trends

     The environment. Access versus the privatization of resources

     Health. Extreme risk

     Reproductive health. Deficiencies that cost lives

     Gender equity. The need to acknowledge discrimination

     The long road to gender equity

     Development indicators at the service of human rights monitoring

     How to read the Social Watch tables

     The present situation of poverty in the world

     Food security

     Education

     Information, science and technology

     Public expenditure

     Trends in Official Development Assistance

     Environment

     Health

     Children's immunization

     Women's reproductive health

     Gender equity

     Status of ratifications of fundamental ILO conventions

     Status of ratifications of International Treaties mentioned in the
Millennium Declaration

     Human Rights International Treaties: how do countries fulfil their
obligations

     Methodology

     Glossary

     Compilation of articles on human rights mentioned in the statistics
tables

     Sources and resources

      NATIONAL REPORTS

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