IDSB04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: World Health Organization, Colombo Plan, Rockefeller Foundation
6 Feb 2018
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What are political, economic, and ideological rationales guide their policies and activities. Exam question: list 5 types of actors (type not name) Never declaring war in and of itself. Switzerland was the basis for the founding of the red cross because they are a nuteral country not a party to war. 27 national agencies: current budget 1 billion. Activities in 120 countries: emergency relief. Horrors of ww2: and postwar hope for the future (un, but a new, cold war quickly takes center stage. 7000 staff (geneva 6 regional offices, 150 countries. Regular budget: assessment of member based on pop size and gnp. In 1960 extra budgetary funds began to displace budget, giving greater voice to big donors. Controlling/eradicating diseases and communism: biological and individual understanding of health, tools applied recipie style around the world, emphasis on technologies and experts, tensions with the ussr. Failure of malaria campaign puts pressure on who. Cold war cooperation (ussr returns to who)
