ISDS Platform – Peoples Dispatch | 18 November 2018
PHA4: Neoliberal Policies and corporate takeover are the cause of the world health crisis
by P Ambedkar
Peoples’ representatives from across the globe have gathered in Savar, Bangladesh for the fourth People’s Health Assembly. They are discussing and debating on how to make this world a place which provides for the health of the people and that of the planet.
Representatives from country after country shared their experiences of how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank recommended prescriptions of austerity and structural adjustment policies that in fact worsened the health of the people. The beneficiaries have been the multinational corporations and the elite.
Disarmed bombs in Xépôn, Laos. Picture: Halo Trust
Đọt Chuối Non 
Commentary By
Theodore R. Bromund, Ph.D.@Bromund
Senior Research Fellow in Anglo-American Relations
James Jay Carafano@JJCarafano
Vice President, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute
Brett D. Schaefer
Senior Research Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs
KEY TAKEAWAYS
U.S. accession would provide no benefits not already available to the U.S., while creating unnecessary burdens and risks.
The U.S. does not need to join the convention in order to access oil and gas resources on its extended continental shelf, in the Arctic, or in the Gulf of Mexico.
Despite subsequent changes in 1994 that led the Clinton administration to support U.S. accession, the Trump administration should oppose accession to this treaty.