ReviewInternational journal for equity in health2026
Health equity and the global social contract: beyond incrementalism and illusionary solidarity.
Review in International journal for equity in health, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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Abstract
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been celebrated as global social contracts, yet their reliance on voluntary commitments and aspirational targets conceals a structural flaw. By divorcing poverty and inequity from colonial histories, debt regimes, and extractive global finance, these frameworks function as a neocolonial placebo: soothing global conscience while entrenching asymmetries of power and resources. Drawing on examples from debt distress, vaccine apartheid, and intellectual property monopolies during COVID-19, this commentary demonstrates that global health governance operates less as solidarity than as economic containment. Reparative justice provides the necessary rupture. A post-2030 Global Social Contract must impose enforceable obligations on former colonial powers, embed structural restitution through debt and tax justice, and democratise health governance under the principle of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities. Anything less risks reproducing selective generosity while abandoning equity to the logics of extraction and impunity.
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