However, fulfilling LIC governments' minimum financial obligations for global health as proposed here along with the mechanism we have recommended will lead to equity in financing global health, in particular the essential (minimum) health package for all individuals globally; that is, financing equity between LMICs themselves, and between LMICs and HICs.
But the administration may be rethinking other foreign priorities like global health — in particular the signature program of Mr. Obama's predecessor, former President George W. Bush, to increase financing to fight the global AIDS epidemic, said Stephen Morrison, director of the Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
In global health in particular, effective advocacy has been a determining factor in bringing what were once invisible health issues into global policy agendas [ 10- 12].
The restoration of European growth will also depend on better global coordination, in particular a G-20 agreement with America and Asia to ensure financial stability and to coordinate a higher path for global growth.
Two global trends in particular suggest this: fragility and mobility.
2011 played host to a range of significant global events, in particular the Arab spring, that led to huge changes in Libya, Egypt and Tunisia among others.
The idea is that oil is cheap because global demand and, in particular, demand from China is weak.
For others, its seeming distance (both chronologically and, for many of us in the global north in particular, geographically) can seduce us with the easy denial that it is someone else's problem to fix.
Shareholders in big global corporations in particular, like Credit Suisse, Roche and Zurich Financial Services, have expressed outrage at falling profits, weakened stock prices and generous executive pay -- issues that are well known to American shareholders.
And will time moderate the disparities cloaked within global averages, in particular disparities of hunger and excess among regions and individuals?
