Word: reformer
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Drawing attention to the idea of health security during an era of pandemics, Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health Julio Frenk yesterday called for “reform in the midst of a storm...
...History teaches us that many of the most enlightened social protection measures have been enacted at times of economic or political crises,” Frenk said. “If well crafted, health reform can be a key ingredient in economic recovery...
Many audience members supported Frenk’s remarks on the need for global health reform...
...Economic reform arrived at Mexico's electrical utility on Saturday night wearing black body armor, crash helmets and ski masks. Flabbergasted workers arriving for early morning shifts on Sunday found thousands of Federal police deployed to enforce a government decree shutting down the company. A special edition of the government gazette decreed that because of inefficiency and unacceptable losses, the state-run utility that provides power to 25 million people in the heart of Mexico had ceased to exist. Its 44,000 employees were immediately terminated, depriving the nation's oldest industrial trade union of its entire membership. The plants...
...political consequences of Calderón's boldest economic-reform move are yet to be revealed. Foreign investors cheered the decision. "This a very good signal," said Gabriel Casillas, head Mexico economist for JPMorgan Chase, in comments representative of the enthusiasm of foreign investors. "It indicates that Calderón could carry out other structural changes to modernize Mexico." Many electricity customers are also looking forward to changes after years of complaining of high bills and poor service. But Esparza has called on fellow unions to take to the streets to fight the measure, and the outcome of the battle...