ASAP Seeks Contributions for Impact: Global Poverty
Contribute to ASAP project sharing information and best practices from academic efforts at influencing poverty policy and civil-society efforts.
Shue asks ASAP members to help protect access to generic medicines
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…
Call for Input: ASAP Oceania Poverty Audit of Australian Political Parties
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…
ASAP researchers identify 1,400+ academics to be surveyed about poverty consensus report
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…
Interview with Juan ColÃn Irazábal, Social Director of TECHO Mexico
Irazábal talks about his transition from working at Dow Chemical to leadership in Latin American poverty nonprofit TECHO.
Jeffrey Sachs on the post-MDGs and SDGs
Presentation on the post-MDGs and SDGs by Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University and…
Participatory consultations working group releases paper on post-MDG policy process
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…
Bringing South Voices into the Dialogue: ASAP Helps Develop Global Justice Center at Delhi University
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…
IGH moves toward piloting the Health Impact Fund
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…
GPCR Team Has Conducted More Than 50 Interviews With Poverty Experts
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…