The Year of Inflation Exposes Dogma and Class Bias
By Anis ChowdhurySYDNEY, Jan 17 2023 (IPS) Inflation worries topped Ipsos’s What Worries the World survey in 2022 overtaking COVID concerns. The return of inflation caught major central banks, e.g., the US Federal Reserve (Fed), Bank of England, European Central Bank “off guard”. The persistence of inflation also surprised the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The return of inflation and its persistence exposed the poverty of the economics profession, unable to agree on its causes and required policy responses. It also exposed the profession’s anti-working class biases.
Anis ChowdhuryInflation goof
Almost all ma...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - January 17, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anis Chowdhury Tags: Armed Conflicts COVID-19 Economy & Trade Financial Crisis Global Headlines Labour TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
Living Another Year Dangerously
By Anis ChowdhurySYDNEY, Jan 2 2023 (IPS) 2022 has been a year of great uncertainty when it seemed the world perilously reached the brink of self-destruction – be it human-induced climate change or military conflict. Welcoming 2022, we had enough reasons to be optimistic; but it was another ‘year of living dangerously’ – Tahun vivere pericoloso in the words of Soekarno, or an annus horribilis in the words of the late Queen Elizabeth.
Anis ChowdhuryNo end to Covid-19
The joy of the COVID vaccine discovery quickly vanished as the ‘vaccine apartheid‘ blatantly prioritised lives in rich nations, especially...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - January 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anis Chowdhury Tags: Armed Conflicts Climate Change COVID-19 Economy & Trade Environment Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
Nurses at Atlanta hospital under fire over TikTok video mocking maternity patients
Four labor and delivery nurses at an Atlanta hospital came under fire over a TikTok video in which they shared the things that annoy them about expecting mothers and their families. “My ick is when you come in for your induction, talking about, ‘Can I take a shower and eat?’” one nurse says. “My…#emoryhealthcare #tiktok #atlanta #emoryuniversityhospitalmidtown (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 10, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Climate Change Drove Nepali Workers to Qatar to Build the World Cup Stadiums. It Also Made Their Jobs More Dangerous
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
When the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration predicts that as many as a billion people will be displaced by climate change over the next 30 years, it’s easy to picture entire communities uprooted by catastrophic hurricanes or swept away by epic floods made more likely by global warming, as we saw in the U.S. and Pakistan earlier this year. But climate-change-induced migration is just as likely to look like the southern Nepali village of Nagrain, where an increasingly unpredictable monsoon has led to droughts, floods, and heatwaves that make it nearly ...
Source: TIME: Health - November 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Aryn Baker / Doha, Qatar and Nagrain, Nepal Tags: Uncategorized adaptation climate change Climate Is Everything Londontime overnight Source Type: news
Macroeconomic Policy Coordination More One-Sided, Ineffective
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame SundaramSYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 25 2022 (IPS) Widespread adverse reactions to the UK government’s recent ‘mini-budget’ forced new Prime Minister Liz Truss to resign. The episode highlighted problems of macroeconomic policy coordination and the interests involved.
Macro-policy coordination
But macroeconomic, specifically fiscal-monetary policy coordination almost became “taboo” as central bank independence (CBI) became the new orthodoxy. It has been accused of enabling CBs to finance government deficits. Critics claim inflation, even hyperinflation, becomes inevitable.
Anis ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - October 25, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Tags: COVID-19 Development & Aid Economy & Trade Financial Crisis Global Globalisation Headlines Inequality Labour TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Jomo Kwame Sundaram & Anis Chowdhury Source Type: news
Stop Worshiping Central Banks
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame SundaramSYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 18 2022 (IPS) Preoccupied with enhancing their own ‘credibility’ and reputations, central banks (CBs) are again driving the world economy into recession, financial turmoil and debt crises.
Wall Street ‘cred’
Most CB governors believe ‘credibility’ is desirable and must be achieved by fighting inflation at any cost. To justify their own more harmful policies, they warn inflation is ‘damaging’.
Anis ChowdhuryThey argue CBs need ‘independence’ from governments to pursue ‘credible’ monetary policy. Inflation targeting to ‘anchor’...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - October 18, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Tags: Armed Conflicts Development & Aid Economy & Trade Financial Crisis Global Headlines Health Labour TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Jomo Kwame Sundaram & Anis Chowdhury Source Type: news
World Health Organization uses Cochrane evidence in induction of labour recommendations
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued updated recommendations on the induction of labour which is supported by evidence fromCochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth.WHO develops global health guidelines, which are of a high methodological quality and are developed through a transparent, evidence-based decision-making process. Ensuring there is an appropriate use of evidence within these guidelines, represents one of the core aspects of Cochrane ’s collobration with WHO. Cochrane has been a non-governmental organization in official relations with WHO since 2011.The Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group has a long-stan...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - October 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lydia Parsonson Source Type: news
Africa, The Looted Continent
Mineral supply chains are often linked to child abuse, human trafficking, forced labour and other human rights violations. Credit: Tommy Trenchard/IPSBy Baher KamalMADRID, Oct 10 2022 (IPS) Africa. The birthplace of “Homo Sapiens.” The land of plenty. The origin of farming. The richest region in terms of natural resources. And human capital. Home to over 1.3 billion humans, continues to be looted.
With 500 million plus people living in extreme poverty, Africa has also been transformed in a sort of grave for half of the world’s victims of terror. The continent is also the land with the highest suicide rate on Earth. W...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - October 10, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Baher Kamal Tags: Africa Headlines Health Natural Resources Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Nifedipine During Labor Controls BP in Severe Preeclampsia Nifedipine During Labor Controls BP in Severe Preeclampsia
For women with preeclampsia with severe features who are undergoing induction of labor, initiation of long-acting oral nifedipine every 24 hours should be considered, researchers say.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape ObGyn and Womens Health Headlines)
Source: Medscape ObGyn and Womens Health Headlines - October 5, 2022 Category: OBGYN Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
Inflation Phobia Hastens Recessions, Debt Crises
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame SundaramSYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Sep 27 2022 (IPS) Inflation phobia among central banks (CBs) is dragging economies into recession and debt crises. Their dogmatic beliefs prevent them from doing right. Instead, they take their cues from Washington: the US Fed, Treasury and Bretton Woods institutions (BWIs).
Costly recessions
Both BWIs – the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank – have recently raised the alarm about the likely dire consequences of the ensuing contractionary ‘race to the bottom’. But their dogmas stop them from being pragmatic. Hence, their policy analys...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Tags: Development & Aid Economy & Trade Financial Crisis Global Headlines Health Inequality Labour TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Jomo Kwame Sundaram & Anis Chowdhury Source Type: news
Pregnant woman, 29, has labor induced four weeks early after finding lump on right breast
Lindsey Gritton, from Gainesville, Georgia, was initially told by doctors that they had seen her symptoms a 'thousand' times and that it was due to a blocked milk duct. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 23, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Eight International Development Priorities for the new UK Prime Minister
In conclusion, through UK-led international development, the new Prime Minister has the opportunity to help tackle the significant crises we all face. As new disasters around the world unfold with increasing frequency and severity, we are constantly reminded that the cost of delay or denial is far too high.
Melissa Leach is Director, Institute of Development Studies, UK.
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Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 6, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Melissa Leach Tags: Climate Change Development & Aid Economy & Trade Environment Europe Global Headlines Health Inequality Labour Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
The Right Policies Can Protect the Workers of Asia and the Pacific
By Armida Salsiah AlisjahbanaBANGKOK, Thailand, Sep 5 2022 (IPS) Most of the 2.1 billion strong workforce in Asia and the Pacific are denied access to decent jobs, health care and social protection but there is an array polices and tools that governments can use to remedy these deficiencies and ensure that the rights and aspirations of these workers and their families are upheld and that they remain the engine of economic growth for the region.
Armida Salsiah AlisjahbanaA new report released today, the Social Outlook for Asia and the Pacific: The Workforce We Need, offers tangible solutions to immediately address alarming...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 5, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana Tags: Asia-Pacific Climate Change Economy & Trade Headlines Health Inequality Labour Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
Reject CPTPP, Stay out of New Cold War
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis ChowdhuryKUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Jul 19 2022 (IPS) Joining or ratifying dubious trade deals is supposed to offer miraculous solutions to recent lacklustre economic progress. Such naïve advocacy is misleading at best, and downright irresponsible, even reckless, at worst.
TPP ‘pivot to Asia’
US President Barack Obama’s ‘pivot to Asia’ after his 2012 re-election sought to check China’s sustained economic growth and technological progress. Its economic centrepiece was the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Jomo Kwame SundaramBut the US International Trade Commission (ITC) doubted th...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 19, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury Tags: COVID-19 Development & Aid Economy & Trade Global Globalisation Headlines Labour TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Jomo Kwame Sundaram & Anis Chowdhury Source Type: news
As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for structural change in academia intensify
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When Jennifer Mason posted an ad for a postdoc position in early March, she was eager to have someone on board by April or May to tackle recently funded projects. Instead, it took 2 months to receive a single application. Since then, only two more have come in. “Money is just sitting there that isn’t being used … and there’s these projects that aren’t moving anywhere as a result,” says Mason, an assistant professor in genetics at Clemson U...
Source: ScienceNOW - June 13, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
