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- Title
LINKING NATURAL RESOURCE EXPLOITATION AND PRIMARY HEALTH CARE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.
- Authors
Zervos, Alexandros
- Abstract
In exchange for loans from international financial institutions, natural resources companies should be made contractually responsible for achieving specific primary health care targets in certain developing countries in which they invest. Primary health care is crucial for social and economic development, but many developing countries' governments fail in its provision. Any effort to make natural resources companies responsible for primary health care would need to focus on goal setting, monitoring and legal enforcement. The latter would include both monetary sanctions and incentives tied to specific targets. The challenges facing this project are significant, but none is problematic enough to defeat the rationale for implementing the program: instead, challenges can effectively be addressed at the goal-setting stage, where targets and incentives would be structured to maximize effectiveness and accountability.
- Subjects
FOREIGN loans; INTERNATIONAL financial institutions; PRIMARY health care; NATURAL resources; ECONOMIC development; DEVELOPING countries
- Publication
UCLA Journal of International Law & Foreign Affairs, 2006, Vol 11, Issue 2, p227
- ISSN
1089-2605
- Publication type
Article