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Call for Papers: Third Annual Amartya Sen Prize Competition

2016-02-01 by Chelsea Papa

Call for Papers: Third Annual Amartya Sen Prize Competition

Submission Deadline: August 29, 2016 ASAP, Global Financial Integrity and the Yale Global Justice Program are soliciting original essays of ca. 7,000 to 9,000 words on the non-revenue impact of curbing illicit financial flows for the third annual Amartya Sen Prize. Poor populations are hurt when rich individuals and multinational corporations surreptitiously shift trillions of dollars […]

Filed Under: Calls Tagged With: Featured, Theme: Institutional Reform

Global Tax Fairness: New ASAP-Supported OUP Publication

2016-01-07 by Chelsea Papa

ASAP has co-funded a new Oxford University Press anthology, co-edited by ASAP Board President Thomas Pogge, and due to be published in Feb 2016: Global Tax Fairness. Briefly, the book addresses fifteen different reform proposals that are urgently needed to correct the fault lines in the international tax system as it exists today, and which […]

Filed Under: Announcements Tagged With: Theme: Institutional Reform, Thomas Pogge

Global Poverty Consensus Report Published

2015-10-06 by Chelsea Papa

Global Poverty Consensus Report Published

The Global Poverty Consensus Report (GPCR) is a joint project between ASAP and the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP). It aims to highlight the existing academic consensus on the causes and remedies for global poverty. Based on thirty-nine interviews done by Gilad Tanay in 2012, the analysis was written by Alberto Cimadamore and Lynda Lange. […]

Filed Under: Announcements Tagged With: CROP, Featured, Project: GPCR, Theme: Institutional Reform

ASAP Writes Open Letter on Migration

2015-09-17 by ASAP Global

ASAP Writes Open Letter on Migration

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. We are a global community of scholars from a range of disciplinary and geographic perspectives. We are concerned about the refugee crisis that is presently unfolding in the wider Mediterranean region and distressed by the inadequacy of official responses thus far.

Filed Under: Announcements Tagged With: Chapter: UK, Theme: Institutional Reform

The State of Food Insecurity Report Hides the Extent of Global Hunger

2015-06-09 by ASAP Global

Each year, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) published a State of Food Insecurity (SOFI) report. The 2015 report has just come out. In an accompanying letter, the FAO’s Coordinator for Economic and Social Development, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, summarizes its message as follows: “With the number of chronically hungry people in developing countries declining from 990.7 million in 1991 to 779.9 million in 2014, their share in developing countries has declined by 44.4 per cent, from 23.4 to 12.9 per cent over the 23 years, but still short of the 11.7 per cent target.” We may not quite achieve the halving of chronic undernourishment envisaged in the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG-1), but we will get quite close.

Filed Under: Announcements Tagged With: Theme: Institutional Reform, Thomas Pogge

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