Lawry, I am basically a retired academician who got sucked back in when I moved back to Tampa and am now developing 4 graduate distance ed courses in international health policy and management.
I just came back from a couple of weeks in Turkey where we were trying to paste together a World Bank funded National Health Survey that has very weird ways of evaluating health care services - a way that elevates the US lack of system - to something desirable. The World Bank guidelines give these countries carrying out the surveys very little latitude as to what questions are asked, etc. What I wanted to do was to do some part time importing which I have kind of ignored the last 4 or 5 months to build these courses - a lot of work cause you just can't walk in and ask 'well kiddies what do you want to talk about tonight?" Bill On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 18:18:10 -0400 "Lawrence DeBivort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, Jeffrey Sachs.... > > The man who forgot about the ruble overhang and thereby advised a > course of > action that wreaked hyperinflation upon the Russians and those other > groups > that got stuck with the Russian ruble. Russia won't recover for yet > many > years, and meanwhile pensioners are begging on the sidewalks, while > the > privileged were allowed to export their rubles for whatever they > could get > for them, while the West dumped good money into trying to prop it > up. What a > debacle.. > > I wonder if Sachs wasn't the fellow who argued for Argentina and > others > pegging their currencies to the US dollar? > > The horror is that even well-meaning people can through ignorance do > a lot > of harm with their hubris. > > Sounds like you are doing interesting work, Bill. Can you say > more? > > Lawry > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of William B > Ward > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 5:21 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Panic stations > > Lawry, > > I agree completely. Bush's position is that any group providing > armed > resistance to a group he supports qualifies as terrorists. The IMF > has, > through its policies and crossing the palms of strong men, probably > killed more people than many of the groups Bush has fingered. > > I have not evaluated the links below but they do make for some > interesting reading: > > http://www.foe.org/international/imf/ > > http://www.globalizethis.org/fightback/#wbimf > > http://www.50years.org/institutions/index.html > > http://www.50years.org/institutions/index.html > > http://lists.essential.org/mailman/listinfo/stop-imf > > http://www.globalexchange.org/economy/rulemakers/ > > http://www.ifg.org/imf.html > > palastimf.htm > > http://members.aol.com/gafrin/imf.htm > > http://www.cepr.net/IMF/ > > The one that blew me away was this by Jeff Sachs, one of the guys > who > brought us the current Russian economic situation. Now if you ignore > the > others, it is hard to ignore this guy. > > Incidentally, I have been involved, in a small way, in planning for > the > current Turkish National Health Survey, funded by the World Bank. > You > may not know it, but a recent study by one of the Bank's health > gurus > indicated that the US has the world's most responsive health > systems. As > an American, I'm glad that I now know that! [:>)}. > > Bill Ward > > > On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:30:29 -0400 "Lawrence DeBivort" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Guerillas, freedom fighters, resistance fighters, maquis, > > terrorists, > > commandos, assassins, special ops, wet ops, minute men.... > > > > The term we choose will reflect whose side they and we are on. > > > > Can you think of any other similar terms? > > > > Lawry > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.
