This Report explores the social impact of the great recession and warns of the possibility of continuing global social crisis in the face of increasing fiscal consolidation and austerity measures, which threaten the sustainability of a recovery. The effects of the financial and economic crisis on social progress have been sharp, widespread, and deep. Given the fragility of the economic recovery and uneven progress in major economies, social conditions are expected to recover slowly. Increased poverty, hunger and unemployment due to the crisis will continue to affect billions of people in many...

Significant gaps remain in delivering on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the areas of aid, trade, debt relief, access to new technologies and affordable essential medicines. This Report monitors the progress made in achieving the targets of MDG 8, including continued attention to the impact of the global crisis on meeting the targets set under MDG 8 and embedding any new commitments resulting from the High-level Plenary Meeting of the 65th session of the General Assembly on the MDGs into the monitoring process. Policy coherence is a central theme of the 2011 issue of the Report,...

A unique list of restricive regulatory actions taken by one hundred twenty-one Governments on over twelve hundred pharmaceuticals and agricultural and industrial chemicals, as well as consumer products. This comprehensive and informative fifteenth edition, was produced in response to General Assembly resolutions aimed at protecting the world against products harmful to health and the environment. Now updated and printed annually with an ever-expanding coverage of countries and products. According to the previously determined schedule, yearly focus alternates between pharmaceuticals and...