Trafficking, Migration, & Health: Complexities & Future Directions
By Shira M Goldenberg
Documenting the health-related harms associated with human trafficking is crucial for the development of strategies to protect and promote the health of individuals who experience this serious human rights violation. In The Lancet Global Health, Ligia Kiss and colleagues report the results of a study of 1102 men, women, and children receiving post-trafficking services in Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam—the largest quantitative study of its kind. They document the health-related harms experienced by men, women, and children trafficked for sex work (32%), fishing (27%), and factory work (13%). Countering dominant portrayals of trafficked people as mainly women and girls trafficked for sexual labour, this study shows the diversity of trafficked people (eg, both sexes, and adults and children) and that trafficking occurs across many sectors. Kiss and colleagues’ findings begin to address a gap in research pertaining to health outcomes associated with sex trafficking (ie, trafficking for sexual labour), as well as trafficking into other sectors (eg, fishing, manufacturing). Both contributions are important for informing interventions to protect and promote the health and wellbeing of trafficked people.
With increasing fiscal challenges in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, multilateral surveillance of fiscal developments, a key part of the IMF’s surveillance responsibilities, has gained further importance. In response, the Fiscal Monitor was launched in 2009 to survey and analyze the latest public finance developments, update fiscal implications of the crisis and medium-term fiscal projections, and assess policies to put public finances on a sustainable footing.
The Fiscal Monitor is prepared twice a year by the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department. The Monitor’s projections are based on the same database used for the April 2010 WEO and GFSR. The fiscal projections for individual countries have been prepared by IMF desk economists, and, in line with the WEO guidelines, assume that announced policies will be implemented.
A Report by the Monetary and Capital Markets Department on Market Developments and Issues
Last Updated Wednesday October 07 2015
The Global Financial Stability Report provides an assessment of the global financial system and markets, and addresses emerging market financing in a global context. It focuses on current market conditions, highlighting systemic issues that could pose a risk to financial stability and sustained market access by emerging market borrowers. The Report draws out the financial ramifications of economic imbalances highlighted by the IMF'sWorld Economic Outlook. It contains, as special features, analytical chapters or essays on structural or systemic issues relevant to international financial stability.
A Survey by the IMF staff usually published twice a year. It presents IMF staff economists' analyses of global economic developments during the near and medium term. Chapters give an overview as well as more detailed analysis of the world economy; consider issues affecting industrial countries, developing countries, and economies in transition to market; and address topics of pressing current interest. Annexes, boxes, charts, and an extensive statistical appendix augment the text.
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2015
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO): Adjusting to Lower Commodity Prices, October 2015, Table of Contents
Description: Global growth for 2015 is projected at 3.1 percent, 0.3 percentage point lower than in 2014, and 0.2 percentage point below the forecasts in the July 2015 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Update. Prospects across the main countries and regions remain uneven. Relative to last year, the recovery in advanced economies is expected to pick up slightly, while activity in emerging market and developing economies is projected to slow for the fifth year in a row, primarily reflecting weaker prospects for some large emerging market economies and oil-exporting countries. In an environment of declining commodity prices, reduced capital flows to emerging markets and pressure on their currencies, and increasing financial market volatility, downside risks to the outlook have risen, particularly for emerging market and developing economies. Table of Contents...
Date: September 28, 2015
Буџетскиот совет на Собранието на Република Македонија денеска на седница ќе расправа за Предлог – Буџетот на државата за 2016 година, што го усвои Владата.
Вицепремиерот и министер за финансии Зоран Ставрески минатата недела образложувајќи го Предлог-буџетот за 2016 година, истакна дека негови основни карактеристики се намалување на буџетскиот дефицит од 3,6 отсто годинава на 3,2 проценти следната година .
Вкупните расходи, според предлогот, се проектирани на 195.788 милиони денари, кои се за 4,7 проценти повисоки од оние во 2015 година, а вкупните приходи се проектирани на 176.804 милиони денари каде има зголемување за 6 проценти во однос на 2015 година.
На приходната страна се очекува даночните приходи да имаат раст од 6,5 проценти и да изнесуваат 101.531 милион денари, неданочните се планирани на 9.633 милиони денари и се за 519 милиони повеќе, а придонесите да имаат раст од 4,2 проценти и да изнесуваат 49.187 милиони денари.
