|
WELCOME to Global Future online. Global Future is a journal of human development published by World Vision, an international Christian relief, development and advocacy non-governmental agency. World Vision publishes Global Future to promote debate on important development questions. Each issue of the magazine deals with a topical theme, and includes articles from policy makers, grassroots activists and development practitioners, including World Vision staff. The aim is to offer a neutral space for a range of views, with World Vision editorial comment. Global Future is published several times a year, and is distributed free to those working in the field of human development. Its mailing list includes the staff of major inter-governmental organisations, academic institutions and non-governmental organisations. Global Future online gives you access to the current and past issues of the magazine, on themes such as trade, human rights, HIV/AIDS, corporations and conflict.
© Copyright World Vision International |
 |
The global financial crisis and the poor
The global financial crisis that engulfed the world in 2008 and continues to wreak havoc today is unique.
This first edition of Global Future for 2009 contains a stimulating sample of new thinking about the impact of the financial crisis on developing countries, and the responsibilities of the developed world to mitigate its effects and prevent its recurrence.
Never before have so many people in so many countries been caught in an economic downturn. Never before have so many governments been forced to ease monetary policy and increase spending simultaneously – and by so much – in an attempt to stave off severe recession.
And never before have the livelihoods of so many people in the world’s poorest countries been so directly affected by circumstances in the richest. Indeed, there are justifiable fears that the rich world will lose sight of the Millennium Development Goals as it is consumed by its own economic turmoil.
The tumultuous events in financial markets over the past year, coming on top of the global food crisis, have forced practitioners and theorists alike to fundamentally re-assess how development can be achieved in a highly integrated world.
Contributors to this edition include:
Martin Ravallion, the World Bank
Steve Keen, University of Western Sydney, and Fellow of the Centre for Policy Development
Roy Culpeper, the North-South Institute
Ann Pettifor, New Economics Foundation, and Advocacy International
Dirk Willem te Velde, the Overseas Development Institute, and
Rica Garde, Save the Children, UK
World Vision staff contributors
PLUS "Voices of life from around the globe" - case studies from Armenia, Albania and the Philippines.
|
 |
To access past issues of Global Future, by theme or date,
Click Here |
 |
On the last page of every issue of Global Future, a writer explores some spiritual and Biblical dimensions of the theme. |
 |
World Vision International publishes articles, briefings, reports, policy updates and other publications on children's rights, economic justice, peacebuilding and emergencies, HIV/AIDS and other key development issues. Publications are researched and written by World Vision operational staff on the ground and/or by professional policy, advocacy or programme staff in support countries. Most are published in hard copy and online. To find out more about the public policy positions and work of World Vision, and to access these publications, click the "World Vision Advocacy" link (below). |
|
|