Executive Summary Implementing the United Nations Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons Analysis of the Reports Submitted by States in 2003, by Elli Kytömäki and Valerie Anne Yankey Wayne, in cooperation with UNDP, the Department for Disarmament Affairs and SAS, 2005 (UNIDIR 2005 2).

The analysis was published in Implementing the United Nations Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons Analysis of the Reports Submitted by States in 2003 2004, by Valerie Yankey Wayne and Elli Kytömäki, and launched at a seminar with UNDP and the Department for Disarmament Affairs of the Secretariat.

Implementing the United Nations Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons Analysis of the Reports Submitted by States in 2003, by Elli Kytömäki and Valerie Anne Yankey Wayne, in cooperation with UNDP, the Department for Disarmament Affairs and the Small Arms Survey, 2004, 320 p., United Nations publication, Sales No.

International diplomatic efforts must therefore focus on achieving temporary ceasefires to bring in the most urgently needed help, such as polio vaccines for children. Aid should not be a mere side show to the seemingly endless peace talks taking place in Geneva as United Nations emergency relief coordinator Valerie Amos insisted, it must be central to those negotiations.

But critics, such as Valerie Ramey of the University of California at San Diego, think that Guajardo, Leigh, and Pescatori have not completely proven their case. It is possible, Ramey argues, that their results could reflect a different sort of reverse causality if governments are more likely to respond to high public debt levels with austerity programs when they have reason to believe that economic conditions could make the debt burden especially worrisome.