Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Acronyms -- A Note on Country Designation -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Why a Focus on the G8? -- The Report Card Project -- Outline of the Book -- Limitations of the Analysis -- Chapter One: Globalization, Health and Development: The Right Prescription? -- Introduction -- Contemporary Globalization -- Globalization, Health and Development: Competing Arguments, Conflicting Evidence -- A Framework for Understanding Globalization's Impacts on Health -- Poverty and Income Inequality -- The Environment and Sustainable Development -- Chapter Two: Macroeconomic Policy, Structural Adjustment and Debt Relief -- Introduction -- 'Debt Crises' and Structural Adjustment -- The Need for Debt Relief and the HIPC Initiative -- HIPC Conditionally: Are PRSPs Just the Reincarnation of Structural Adjustment? -- Poverty Reduction and Foreign Direct Investment -- International Finance, Tax Competition and Offshore Financial Centers -- Summary: Chapter Two -- Chapter Three: Health and Health Systems -- Introduction -- The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria -- Essential Health Interventions as Global Public Goods -- Health System Infrastructure -- G8 Official Development Assistance to Health-Systems Development -- The Brain Drain -- Access to Essential Medicines -- Macroeconomic Policies and Health Care -- Privatization, Liberalization and GATS -- Tobacco Control: Deadly Silence from the G8 -- Summary: Chapter Three -- Chapter Four: Education -- Introduction -- Education for All and the Dakar Framework for Action -- Policy Challenges, G8 Responses -- Summary: Chapter Four -- Chapter Five: Nutrition, Food Security and Biotechnology -- Introduction -- Nutrition and Food Security -- G7 ODA to Agriculture -- Child Malnutrition, Food Security and Africa -- Biotechnology and Food Security.

Agricultural Exports and Food Security -- Food Security: An Epilogue -- Summary: Chapter Five -- Chapter Six: Official Development Assistance -- Introduction -- Trends in G7 Official Development Assistance -- ODA in the Near Future -- The Politics of Aid -- Summary: Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven: Trade and Market Access -- Introduction -- Improving Market Access -- Protected and Subsidized Agriculture -- Market Access: Necessary but Not Sufficient -- WTO Participation -- Market Liberalization and Changes in Taxation -- Summary: Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight: Environment -- Introduction -- Drinking Water and Sanitation -- Privatization, Water and GATS -- Environmental Assessments of ECA Activities -- Commitments on Multilateral Environmental Agreements -- Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy -- Johannesburg and the Retreat from Sustainable Development -- Summary: Chapter Eight -- Chapter Nine: Equity, Health and NEPAD: A Case Study -- Introduction -- Global Policy, African Realities -- The NEPAD Report Card Project -- Conclusion -- Chapter Ten: Promises Kept and Broken, Right or Wrong -- Introduction -- Promises Kept, Promises Broken -- Promises Right, Promises Wrong -- Areas for Further Research -- Conclusion: The G8 and the Question of Global Governance -- Epilogue -- References -- Appendix 1: G7 and G8 Health-Related Commitments Matrix: 1999-2001 -- Appendix 2: Data Tables -- Appendix 3: NEPAD's Health Commitments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.