From poverty to power - Oxfam-Québec

FROM POVERTY TO POWERGLOSSARYAccountabilityActive citizenshipAntiretroviralsBiofuelsCapital accountliberalisationThe means by which power is used responsibly. In thehumanitarian context, accountability involves takingaccount of, and accounting to, beneficiaries of aid.The combination of rights and obligations that linkindividuals to the state, including paying taxes,obeying laws, and exercising political, civil, and socialrights. Active citizens use these rights to improve thequality of political or civic life, often throughcollective action.Drugs used to treat retroviruses, primarily HIV.Different ARVs are used at different stages of the HIVlife cycle and, typically, in combinations of three orfour different drugs.Most commonly, crops such as corn, sugar cane, oroilseed rape that are processed to make bioethanol,an alcohol that is blended with petrol, or biodiesel.Biofuels were initially hailed as a ‘green’ alternative tofossil fuels, but there is evidence that the rush tocultivate fuel crops is having adverse environmentalimpacts of its own and is also putting serious pressureon food production.The removal of government barriers to internationalflows of capital, a policy recommended to manydeveloping-country governments by institutionssuch as the International Monetary Fund and WorldBank, in order to boost efficiency and growth.500