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From a stage erected in front of the US Capitol, on April 25, 1993, Michael Callen surveyed the throng: an estimated one million people stretched across the National Mall in the largest public demonstration of queer political solidarity in history. "What a sight," he told the crowd, his earnest Midwestern twang reverberating through loudspeakers. "You're a sight for sore eyes. Being gay is the greatest gift I have ever been given, and I don't care who knows about it." He then launched into a gorgeous rendition of "Love Don't Need a Reason," the AIDS anthem he composed with Marsha Malamet and the late Peter Allen. As Callen finished singing, people stood cheering and flashing the familiar American Sign Language symbol for "I Love You." For they knew the song's sentiment rang true for Callen, who had recently announced his retirement from music and activism after a living for more than a decade with what was then called "full-blown AIDS." After the March on Washington, Callen returned to his recently adopted West Coast home, Los Angeles. In the ensuing months, his health rapidly declined, and on 27 December 1993, Callen died of AIDS-related pulmonary Kaposi's sarcoma. Love Don't Need a Reason focuses on Callen's most important and lasting legacy: his music. A witness to the overlooked last years of Gay Liberation and a major figure in the early years of the AIDS crisis, Michael Callen chronicled these experiences in song. A community organizer, activist, author, and architect of the AIDS self-empowerment movement, he literally changed the way we have sex in an epidemic when he co-authored one of the first safe-sex guides in 1983. A gifted singer, songwriter, and performer, he also made gay music for gay people and used music to educate and empower people with AIDS. Listening again to his music allows us to hear the shifting dynamics of American families, changing notions of masculinity, gay migration to urban areas, the sexual politics of Gay Liberation, and HIV/AIDS activism. Using extensive archival materials and newly-conducted oral history interviews with Callen's friends, family, and fellow musicians, Matthew J. Jones reintroduces Callen to the history of LGBTQIA+ music and places Callen's music at the center of his important activist work.

Gay musicians. --- Callen, Michael, --- Michael Callen --- HIV/AIDS --- popular music --- LGBTQ --- history --- LGBTQ activism

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This Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for the Kingdom of Lesotho presents a determined plan in pursuance of high and sustainable equity-based economic growth. It contains medium-term objectives and strategies to address the major challenges facing the country. These challenges include employment creation and income generation, and improving quality of and access to education and health services. Lesotho plans to deal boldly with its trading and investment partners by exploiting the opportunities inherent in the process of globalization under such mechanisms as the Africa Growth and Opportunities Act.

Lesotho --- Economic conditions. --- Environmental Economics --- Diseases: AIDS and HIV --- Poverty and Homelessness --- Education: General --- Health Behavior --- Health: General --- Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General --- Environmental Economics: General --- Education --- HIV/AIDS --- Health economics --- Poverty & precarity --- Environmental economics --- HIV and AIDS --- Health --- Poverty --- Environment --- HIV --- Viruses --- Environmental sciences --- Lesotho, Kingdom of --- Hiv and AIDS --- Hiv --- Hiv/AIDS

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For the latest thinking about the international financial system, monetary policy, economic development, poverty reduction, and other critical issues, subscribe to Finance & Development (F&D). This lively quarterly magazine brings you in-depth analyses of these and other subjects by the IMF’s own staff as well as by prominent international experts. Articles are written for lay readers who want to enrich their understanding of the workings of the global economy and the policies and activities of the IMF.

Corruption --- AIDS (Disease) --- Civil rights --- Anti-inflationary policies --- Antiinflationary policies --- Inflation (Finance) --- Economic policy --- Price regulation --- Corrupt practices --- Ethics --- Government policy --- E-books --- Inflation --- Money and Monetary Policy --- Diseases: AIDS and HIV --- Criminology --- Bureaucracy --- Administrative Processes in Public Organizations --- Health Behavior --- Price Level --- Deflation --- Education: General --- Monetary Policy --- Corporate crime --- white-collar crime --- HIV/AIDS --- Macroeconomics --- Monetary economics --- Education --- HIV and AIDS --- Inflation targeting --- Crime --- Health --- Prices --- Monetary policy --- HIV --- Viruses --- United States --- Hiv and AIDS --- Hiv --- Hiv/AIDS --- White-collar crime

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The staff report for the 2005 Article IV Consultation on Botswana highlights key issues, recent developments, and policy discussions. The authorities are strengthening their structural reform agenda and moving ahead with sector-specific development programs with a view to sustaining annual growth in the 5–6 percent range as targeted in their current medium-term development plan. The authorities recognized the importance of fiscal adjustment to maintaining macroeconomic stability. They have no plans to move away from the exchange rate peg in the near term, but are exploring their options with regard to the monetary policy framework.

Fiscal policy --- Tax policy --- Taxation --- Economic policy --- Finance, Public --- Government policy --- International Monetary Fund --- Internationaal monetair fonds --- International monetary fund --- Botswana --- Economic policy. --- Foreign Exchange --- Macroeconomics --- Public Finance --- Diseases: AIDS and HIV --- Health Behavior --- Health: General --- National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General --- Debt --- Debt Management --- Sovereign Debt --- HIV/AIDS --- Public finance & taxation --- Currency --- Foreign exchange --- Health economics --- HIV and AIDS --- Health --- Expenditure --- Public debt --- Income --- National accounts --- HIV --- Viruses --- Expenditures, Public --- Debts, Public --- Hiv and AIDS --- Hiv --- Hiv/AIDS

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This paper focuses on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) and the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS). The MGDS is the overarching strategy for Malawi from fiscal year 2006/07 to 2010/2011. The purpose of the MGDS is to serve as a single reference document for policymakers in government; the private sector; civil society organizations; donors and cooperating partners and the general public on socioeconomic growth and development priorities for Malawi. The overriding philosophy of the MGDS is poverty reduction through sustainable economic growth and infrastructure development.

Poverty --- Malawi --- Dziko la Malaŵi --- GOM (Malawi) --- Ma-la-wei --- Malaui --- Malavi --- Maraui --- Republic of Malaŵi --- República de Malawi --- Republik Malawi --- Малави --- マラウイ --- Nyasaland --- Economic conditions. --- Economic policy. --- Infrastructure --- Environmental Economics --- Diseases: AIDS and HIV --- Health Behavior --- Health: General --- Environmental Economics: General --- Education: General --- Investment --- Capital --- Intangible Capital --- Capacity --- HIV/AIDS --- Health economics --- Environmental economics --- Education --- Macroeconomics --- HIV and AIDS --- Health --- Environment --- National accounts --- HIV --- Viruses --- Environmental sciences --- Saving and investment --- Hiv and AIDS --- Hiv --- Hiv/AIDS