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We are experiencing a historical moment with an unprecedented challenge of the COVID-19 global pandemic. The outbreak of COVID-19 will have a long-term and profound impact on older adults’ health and well-being. Social isolation and loneliness are likely to be one of the most affected health outcomes. Social isolation and loneliness are major risk factors that have been linked with poor physical and mental health status. This paper discusses several approaches that may address the issues of social isolation and loneliness. These approaches include promoting social connection as public health messaging, mobilizing the resources from family members, community-based networks and resources, developing innovative technology-based interventions to improve social connections, and engaging the health care system to begin the process of developing methods to identify social isolation and loneliness in health care settings.

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Social isolation and loneliness among older adults in the context of COVID-19: a global challenge

Poruka koju nam salje knjiga Paradoks globalizacije može se jednostavno sažeti rijecima da je samo stabilna i zdrava domaca ekonomska politika temelj otvorene međunarodne ekonomije i da su samo stabilne politicke zajednice temelj mirom prožetog i stabilnog međunarodnog poretka. Implikacije ove dvije teze su siroke, ali vrlo su zanimljive u kontekstu dužnicke krize koja potresa eurozonu vec pune dvije godine. Dubinska ekonomska integracija u domeni fiskalne politike bez demokratizacije EU i nametanje tehnokratskih rjesenja izvana uz zanemarivanje domacih razvojnih potreba nije rjesenje za probleme u kojima se ona trenutacno nalazi. Rodrik navodi EU kao primjer uspjesne regionalne ekonomske integracije, ali koja u ovo krizno vrijeme pokazuje totalnu konfuziju oko odabira dvije od tri ponuđene opcije. Uz sve sto je autor naveo kao dio friedmanovske hiperglobalisticke zablude sasvim je izvjesno da bi u kontekstu europske integracije autor na prvo mjesto stavio kombinaciju ekonomske integracije i demokratizacije EU, na drugo mjesto nacionalni suverenitet i demokratsku politiku, a kao najnepoželjniji scenarij duboku ekonomsku integraciju i nacionalne države kao dio integracije sui generis sputane luđackom kosuljom supranacionalne politike bez demokratskog legitimiteta ili diktatom Merkozy.

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The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy

THE PURPOSE OF DEVELOPMENT AS A GLOBAL OBJECTIVE REQUIRING INTERNATIONAL cooperation can and has been defined in many ways. Such definitions depend on how political leaders envision important normative goals for the world; how economists, philosophers, and political scientists theorize the process of development; and how these ideas are utilized and adopted by key stakeholders. A significant evolution in recent years has been the emergence of a broad consensus on ending poverty as the overarching objective of development. This consensus is institutionalized in the UN Millennium Declaration adopted in 2000 and in the widespread use of the global targets that have become known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In previous decades, international development objectives were not so clearly defined nor did they focus on poverty and poor people. Although concern with widespread poverty has been a major factor for keeping development on the international agenda since the 1950s, strategies have been dominated by economic objectives ranging from building infrastructure, human capital and an industrial base in the 1960s and 1970s, to economic liberalization in the 1980s and 1990s, to institutional and governance reforms since the 1990s. (1) Civil society advocates and academics have consistently criticized these national and international strategies for their neglect of poverty and the human dimension. (2) This new consensus has important implications for the international political economy of development. As Charles Gore argues, the consensus was achieved at the expense of replacing the prioritization of building national capacities for development. (3) While the MDGs are usually seen as desirable, Ashwani Saith points out that "the MDG phenomenon carries the potential for distorting meaningful intellectual and research agendas, and could function as the catalyst and vehicle for a fundamental realignment of the political economy of development at the global level." (4) How did this normative shift take place? Was it driven by ethical considerations? What was the role of key individuals and institutional stakeholders? What were the strategic instruments deployed? The aim of this article is to explain how the MDGs emerged and became established and to analyze the trajectory of the antipoverty norm itself. We draw on documentary material and interviews conducted with over 100 individuals who were involved in the framing and implementation phases of the Millennium Declaration and MDGs. We use the model of international norm dynamics set out by Martha Finnemore and Kathryn Sikkink. (5) But we propose elements to extend and refine that model in this context. We argue that the MDGs brought specificity and concreteness to the idea of ending global poverty, and explain the dynamics of that process by extending the conceptual apparatus of Finnemore and Sikkink. We introduce two new concepts: the "supernorm," a cluster of interrelated norms grouped into a unified and coherent framework, and the "message entrepreneur," as distinct from the "norm entrepreneur." (6) The Supernorm of Ending Global Poverty In this article, we treat the MDGs as a vehicle to communicate and promote the objective of ending global poverty. Legislatively the MDGs originated in goals set in the Millennium Declaration, a political declaration signed by 189 countries, including 145 heads of state or government, that commits to ending poverty as a key goal for the twenty-first century along with peace, human rights, and democracy. The development chapter of the Millennium Declaration is entirely focused on poverty rather than other dimensions of development. It starts with the statement: "We will spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty, to which more than a billion of them are currently subjected." (7) While the Millennium Declaration included clearly defined objectives and specific quantitative goals, these were further clarified into a form that could be monitored more effectively in the Road Map presented by the UN Secretary-General a year later. …

International norm dynamics and the "end of poverty": Understanding the millennium development goals

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Challenging Global Inequality: Development Theory and Practice in the 21st Century

The village as a social entrepreneur: Balancing conservation and livelihoods

This article tries to demonstrate how the concept of sustainable development is fraught with tensions that are political and ethical in nature. In trying to implement any notion of sustainability the agenda for policy action would be quite different in different contexts. The complex set of problems to be addressed would differ considerably in countries with different levels of economic development. Similarly, on certain issues global governance is called for. In other contexts, local conditions and culture must be understood before any policy intervention can be thought of. This is the first level of complexity with which any governance mechanism for sustainability must come to terms with. Governance itself is also inherently complex. It is an unfolding of a complicated interaction between different participants such as policy-makers, the wide variety of agencies which come together in the process of implementation and the beneficiaries themselves. Policy, and its outcomes, should not be viewed as a line...

Sustainable Development and Governance: Complex Processes and Unpredictable Outcomes

Sustainable development is essentially about taking a view of future generations of people inhabiting the world. It is also about defining actions in the present time of achieving the desired goal ...

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Anup Sinha

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Challenging Global Inequality: Development Theory and Practice in the 21st Century

The village as a social entrepreneur: Balancing conservation and livelihoods

Sustainable Development and Governance: Complex Processes and Unpredictable Outcomes

Sustainability: Ethics and the Future

Development as Intervention