¿Continuarán muriendo de hambre millones de personas en el siglo XXI?

A partir de la constatación de que la magnitud de la subnutrición constituye uno de los grandes problemas a escala planetaria para las organizaciones multilaterales de desarrollo, en este artículo se pretende (a) ofrecer una panorámica general de lo que las más recientes estimaciones estadísticas nos dicen del alcance del hambre en el mundo; (b) proponer una reflexión sobre las incongruencias de los diagnósticos emitidos por décadas para explicarla desde la Economía y la Sociología del Desarrollo, insistiendo en la recurrencia a la presión demográfica y al tradicionalismo como causas principales; (c) analizar las principales consecuencias de las líneas de intervención impulsadas a tenor de esos diagnósticos; y (d) sondear la viabilidad de quienes señalan razones estructurales profundas para explicar la persistencia de la subnutrición.

Temporary help agencies and workers' occupational mobility

This paper focuses on the occupational mobility of temporary helpagency workers by studying their job-to-job upgrading chances as opposedto those who have not been hired through these intermediaries. A screeningapproach to the role of those labor brokers suggests that agency workersmay expect greater chances of upgrading from one occupation to another.Results obtained with a sample of Spanish workers show that workingthrough those intermediaries comparatively offers stronger prospects ofoccupational upgrading for workers of a medium qualification level. Thisbasic result is reinforced when the existence of self-selection into thistype of intermediated work is appropriately taken into account.

FEMA’s Capability Development After Katrina

After Action Reports for Hurricane Isaac & Sandy concluded that WebEOC was correct choice for FEMA’s Crisis Management System: real time data easily shared between FEMA Headquarters, Regions and Incident Management Assistance Teams; cloud capability allowed use on any web connected device, laptop, tablet, iPad, smart phone; intuitive System - Offgoing personnel able to train incoming reliefs on new features or changes within minutes; widespread use of WebEOC through out country in 19 other Federal Departments and Agencies, 40 States, hundreds of cities/counties and industry provided a number of users that had prior experience using WebEOC and reduced learning curve experienced when new systems are introduced; focusing on a single shared web database reduced creation of new single purpose databases, spreadsheets and share point sites allowing best practices to be captured, refined, shared and continued