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From: Sent: To: Friday, June 17, 2011 4:48 PM [email protected] thought you might enjoy - hadn't thought of sending you prviously but=this is daily media monitoring we get for europe. let me know if you ever=want? Europe daily media monitori=g June 17, 2011 Europe Deworming and handwashing can offer better value than immuni=ation <http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/=07be4c8- 986f-11e0-94d7-00144feab49a.htmlftaxzzlPEY177kO> By Will Crouch. Financial TimesaFONT> June 17, 2011 • =Will Crouch is Assistant Director and Head of Research at the=Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford University. He writes in res=onse to the Financial Times' article "Donors give=vaccine fund $4.3bn boost." • =The Financial Times has rightly flagged up the debate=about whether this is the best use of their funds because of the high pri=e that GAVI pays for vaccinations, and the problems GAVI faces with imple=enting its immunization programs. • =But it's important that "cost-effectiveness=E2 is properly understood. The UK's Department for Internat=onal Development refers to "value for money" when describ=ng its priorities. But it doesn't have a sensible metric for what=counts as "value." • =But health economists do: namely, the Disability Adjusted Lif= Year, or DALY. This represents one lost year of healthy life: averting=one DALY is equivalent in value to giving one person one year of life at=very high quality health. • =Research using this metric shows that what we should be most=concerned about is not whether the GAVI gets a good price for its vaccine=, but whether immunization is the right program to fund at all. By fundin= the rotavirus and pneumococcal vaccines, it is paying $100 for every DAL= averted. This is a very good deal compared with many other uses of the=money, but surprisingly we can do much better again. </=PAN> Sarkozy targets commodity prices <http://www.ft.com/intl/cros/s/0/=31578c4-9848.11e0-ae45- 00144feab49a.html#axzzlPEY177kO> By Staff Financial Times<=FONT> June 16, 2011 • =A whole range of commodity markets have spent the last six months flirting with multiyear hig=s. One reason is the surging demand in emerging economies such as China=and India. Worse, a jump in the cost of food=is a matter of life and death for the world's lbn chronica=ly hungry. • =On Tuesday, Nicolas Sarkozy set out a three-pronged approach:=boosting production; increasing transparency in commodities derivatives=markets by standardizing contracts and forcing more deals on to exchanges=(most are currently bilateral); and setting a minimum amount of collatera= that parties must post when they enter into a derivatives transaction. • =Reforming derivatives markets should not be a cover for a cru=ade on non-physical trading. It would be impossible — and undesir=ble — to completely reverse the "financialization =9D of commodities markets which Mr Sarkozy so abhors. <=SPAN> EFTA_R1_01393122 EFTA02379565 -In food markets, for example, it is useful to smooth over the-period of a year prices that would otherwise swing wildly either side of=a harvest. The liquidity provided by numerous non-physical traders makes=this easier. Germany</=PAN> The reform of development=aid (Die Ent=icklungshilfereform) By Staff Tageszeitung June 17, 2011 • =It's been years that the OECD laments the inefficienc= of German development aid due to the large range of organizations operat=ng in this field. • =This is why Dirk Niebel fused the three main organizations to=GIZ. The new association has about 17 000 employees. =However, it is not proved yet if the new association leads to=savings and efficiency. &nbs=; A first class argument (Ein Streit erster Klasse= By Gordon Repinski Tageszeitung June 17, 2011 • =The whole German development sector experiences a particular=dispute which started with a letter of a social democrat asking for proof=of allegations. • =The argument questions the efficiency, structure and policies=of development aid. Many had tried to fuse development aid organizations=before the current Minister, Dirk Niebel, finally did so this year.<=o:p> • =However, the individual organizations used to have their own=structure. Now the former GTZ structure rules development aid policies.= •<=FONT> =nbsp; Besides, the head of the GIZ, Be=nd Eisenblatter, claims that they aim at being the leader of worldwi=e development aid. •<=FONT> =nbsp; The asso=iation will have to justify their action in the coming weeks.<=FONT> France4U><=U> Peru: Lima says it's free of GMOs, until the peruvian moratorium (Perou: Lima se declare "libre d'OGM", en atten=ant un moratoire peruvien) By Staff Agence France Presse June 17, 2011 • =Lima, with more than 8 million inhabitants, has adopted a mun=cipal decree declaring the city to be a GMO-free zone to protect its citi=ens and the environment. • =For the minister of Agriculture, this decree only puts legal=force to texts that were already in place against the import of GMOs. U.S./Agriculture: the House=of Representatives votes controversial budgetary cuts (USA/agriculture: la Chambre vot= des reductions budgetaires controversees) By Staff Agence France Presse June 17, 2011 =The U.S. House of Representatives Thursday passed a finance-bill of the agriculture sector, containing controversial cuts.=/FONT> • =The bill includes funding for fiscal year 2012 for the U.S.=Department of Agriculture, of the FDA and the CFTC. Farmers from North and Sout= are gathered in Paris (Agriculteurs du Nord et du Sud vont discuter ensemble a=Paris ) By Staff Le Monde<=SPAN> June 16, 2011 • =This week, the National Federation of Farmers Trade Unions (F=SEA) and the Young Farmers (JA) have organized a G120, gathering 120 orga=izations from 80 different countries. • =The meeting takes place under the theme "farmers take the wor=" and aims to discuss important topics such as price volatility, climate=change, speculation and food versus fuel. • =Present at the opening of the G120 was President Sarkozy who=called for a new agriculture model: "economic, social and environment rul=s to progress" This was also covered in Le=Point and Agence France Presse. Sierra Leone: the mortality=rate due to malaria has been reduced by half (Sierra Leone: la mortalite due au=paludisme a baisse de moitie) By Staff Agence France Presse June 16, 2011 • =The number of the deaths attributed to malaria has been reduc=d by half, from 32% to 16%, thanks to the distribution of some 3.2 millio= mosquito nets in 2010. 2 EFTA_R1_01393123 EFTA02379566 =Ms Wani Komba Lahai, responsible for the health authorities,=said that 98% of the mosquito nets were being used in the right way. • =The Ministry of Health has called on all the health workers=to raise awareness on malaria as the country is entering the rain season.=o:p> The U.S. still dominate global agriculture (Les=Etats-Unis dominent toujours ('agriculture planetaire) By Anne Cheyvialle<=FONT> Le Figaro=/SPAN> June 16, 2011 • =Leader in the export of soy and corn, lead producer of the mi=k and beef, number three in the production of cereal...the U.S. are a maj=r agriculture power. • =ln the U.S., the agriculture sector represents only 1.4% of=the GDP, against 1.6% in 1995. In Europe the decrease was bigger, going=from 2.7% to 1.8%. • =This does not mean the sector is declining, but it points to=productivity gains through technological progress. • =To feed 9 billion people in 2050, Africa has a big role to pl=y. In Asia, there's no land left, and the U.S. and Europe's productivity=are at a maximum," says Jean-Marc Gravellini, Africa Director of the Fren=h Development Agency. How will the IMF chose between Lagarde and Carstens (Comment le FMI va choisir entre Lagarde et Carstens) </=PAN> By Staff Agence France Presse June 16, 2011 • =The IMF wants to appoint a new managing director by the end=of this month. A debate between the 24 members of the executive boa=d will decide between the French, Christine Lagarde, or the Mexican, Agus=in Carstens. • =To be able to take on the position, Ms Lagarde will have resi=n from her current minister post as the IMF only appoints a managing dire=tor that isn't a governor or administrator of a fund4=PAN> • =One third of the executive board represents their country and=two thirds represent a group of countries. Europe has 8 representatives.=To decide the board first needs to talk with both candidates at a date th=t isn't revealed to the public. The French do not trust scientists (Les Fran =A7ais se fient 5 la science, pas aux chercheurs) <=FONT> By Pierre Le Hir Le Monde June 16, 2011 • =An Ipsos study for La Recherche and Le Monde reveals doubtsron the independence of scientists. • =To the question "do you trust scientists to say the truth on=the results and consequences of their work?" a minority of French respond=d yes. • =GMOs and nuclear energy are the research fields where scienti=ts' results are the least convincing: only one in three respondents trust= scientists. Spain Child malnutrition is "bad=business" for Central America, experts say (Desnutrici0n=infantil es "un mal negocio" para Centroamerica, dicen expertos) By Staff EFE June 17, 2011 • =Child malnutrition is a "bad deal" for Central America in ter=s of costs for each country since it leads to a lack of productivity and=intellectual labor, experts said today in San Salvador. • ="There is evidence that chronic child malnutrition has an eco=omic impact on a country if these children can never expand their skills=and contribute to labor productivity, intellectually and physically," sai= the Regional Director for the UN World Food Program (WFP), Jaime Vallaur=. • Rodrigo Martinez, member of the Social Development Division of the=Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said tha= the economic costs for malnutrition in Central America and the Dominican=Republic were estimated to be around 6,700 million U.S. dollars for 2004.= UK4U> Mass vaccination and Big Pharma <http://www.guardian.co.uk/globa=-development/2011/jun/16/mass-vaccination-big- pharma> By Alison Evans The Guardian June 17, 2011 • =Alison Evans is Director of the Overseas Development Institut= and responds to the GAVI vaccine pledge. 3 EFTA_R1_01393124 EFTA02379567 =Vaccines are a quick win with a clear and strongly desirable=outcome. Not all development is made up of quick wins, however. At the Ov=rseas Development Institute we have spent the last year researching episo=es of development progress across the developing world. • =Our report, Mapping Progress: Evidence For A New Development=Outlook, was launched this week to assess what is working in development=and why. • =There are four common drivers of development - smart leadersh=p, smart policies, smart institutions and smart friends. A shot in the=arm <http://www.economist.com/node/1=836582?story_id=18836582> By Staff The Economist </=ONT> June 16, 2011 =Over the past decade the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Imm=nisation (GAVI), founded with the help of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foun=ation, has become the world's main advocate of immunisation. Last=year Mr Gates announced a new "decade of vaccines". =/o:p> • =On June 13th, at a conference in London, the group got its wi=h, and more, with donors pledging $4.3 billion to help immunise 250m chil=ren. • =Immunisation rates in the poor world have soared.One reason=for this success is increased competition among manufacturers, largely th=nks to vaccine-makers in emerging markets. The Serum Institute of India,=for instance, says that its vaccines now immunise half the world'= children. • =Another is GAVI itself. Before its creation, UNICEF offered=short-term tenders for vaccines. By contrast, GAVI has insisted on higher=volumes and long-term contracts to attract manufacturers and drive down=prices. • </=PAN>The=Gates Foundation has experimented with "push" financing,=to develop a cheap vaccine against meningitis A. • </=PAN>Diff=rent vaccines will require different models. Some may be pushed by grants=while still in the early stages of development. In other cases, high pric=s in the rich world can subsidise low ones in poor countries. =/FONT> 4 EFTA_R1_01393125 EFTA02379568