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Pogge’s proposal for MDG successors featured in Guardian

May 22, 2013 in Homepage, News

By Rachel Payne ASAP President Thomas Pogge has an original prescription for the post-MDG agenda, according to The Guardian. Pogge argues that the post-2015 global development framework must be fundamentally different than the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) it is replacing. According to Mark Tran’s...

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ASAP Seeks Contributions for Impact: Global Poverty

May 2, 2013 in News

Contribute to ASAP project sharing information and best practices from academic efforts at influencing poverty policy and civil-society efforts.

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Shue asks ASAP members to help protect access to generic medicines

April 24, 2013 in Homepage, News

Henry Shue, Oxford Professor of Politics and International Relations and member of the ASAP Advisory Board, contacted the ASAP team this week with a message for members: help protect access to affordable generic medicines in the Pacific Rim. He says he hopes many ASAP members will participate in a campaign,...

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Call for input: ASAP Oceania poverty audit of Australian political parties

April 19, 2013 in News

ASAP Oceania’s first project is to conduct and disseminate a ‘poverty audit’ on the policy platforms of the three major political parties in Australia, as part of the build-up to the Australian federal election on September 14. In order to collect the data for this audit, we are seeking two kinds...

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ASAP researchers identify 1,400+ academics to be surveyed about poverty consensus report

April 19, 2013 in ASAP Projects, GPCR News, Homepage, News

The conclusions of the Global Poverty Consensus Report (GPCR), an ASAP effort to identify academic consensus on priorities for poverty alleviation, will soon be tested. ASAP board members Gilad Tanay and Keith Horton are working with a small research team to analyze the results of fifty interviews with...

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Participatory consultations working group releases paper on post-MDG policy process

March 18, 2013 in News

The ASAP Genuinely Participatory Consultations (GPC) Working Group has published its initial assessment of the UN’s global consultation process on the next phase of international development. The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has been leading an initiative to genuinely include poor and marginalized...

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Bringing South Voices into the Dialogue: ASAP Helps Develop Global Justice Center at Delhi University

March 2, 2013 in News

As an emerging global power, India has increasingly felt the domestic effects of its international immersion in networks of trade, investment and security. A new global justice program at the University of Delhi will explore the moral and ethical dimensions of such issues, with an emphasis on bringing...

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IGH moves toward piloting the Health Impact Fund

January 6, 2013 in ASAP Projects, News

At present, the development of new medicines is driven by the reward of temporary market exclusivity. When a new medicine is protected from generic competition, its profit-maximizing price inevitably prevents a large proportion of the world’s population, including many in affluent countries, from purchasing...

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GPCR Team Has Conducted More Than 50 Interviews With Poverty Experts

January 6, 2013 in ASAP Projects, GPCR News, News

The Global Poverty Consensus Report project aims to identify and clearly articulate academic consensus and disagreement on global poverty alleviation and to feed these points of consensus into the MDG replacement process. To date, the team has interviewed more than 50 poverty researchers, with more...

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Global Health Impact project refines index ahead of NYU law seminar

January 6, 2013 in ASAP Projects, News

The Global Health Impact project is happy to welcome a new batch of interns working on improving the first draft of the index that will appear in a proceedings from the Global Administrative Law seminar put on by New York University in Rome this summer! The Global Health Impact project has conducted...