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  • Making Medicines in Africa

    The Political Economy of Industrializing for Local Health

    Edited by Maureen Mackintosh, Geoffrey Banda, Watu Wamae, Paula Tibandebage ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC-BY license.The importance of the pharmaceutical industry in Sub-Saharan Africa, its claim to policy priority, is rooted in the vast unmet health needs of the sub-continent. Making Medicines in Africa is a collective endeavour, by a group of contributors with a strong African and more broadly Southern presence, to find ways to link technological development, ... Read more

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  • Promoting Innovation, Productivity and Industrial Growth and Reducing Poverty

    Edited by Maureen Mackintosh, Joanna Chataway, Marc Wuyts ...
    Development and the ending of mass poverty require a massive increase in productive capabilities and production in developing countries. Some countries, notably in Asia, are achieving this. Yet ‘pro-poor’ aid policies, especially for the least developed countries, operate largely without reference to policy thinking on the promotion of innovation for productivity growth. Conversely, policy-makers ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The Food Question

    Profits Versus People

    by Henry Bernstein, Maureen Mackintosh, Charlotte Martin ...
    Wasteful over-consumption (by some) in the developed countries and the continuing, in some cases worsening, hunger of millions in the Third World is a dramatic indication that food problems are urgent.Anger is not enough and this book, which comes from the research group on Development Policy and Practice in the Open University (DPP), aims to provide some of the analytical tools needed for serious ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • Cancer Care in Pandemic Times: Building Inclusive Local Health Security in Africa and India

    Edited by Geoffrey Banda, Maureen Mackintosh, Mercy Karimi Njeru, Fortunata Songora Makene, Smita Srinivas ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access edited volume focuses on the scope and benefits of strengthening local industrial-health linkages. The Covid-19 pandemic collapsed international supply chains for health. That experience brought home to African policy makers the critical nature of local manufacturing capabilities for sustaining and strengthening health care, and highlighted the pandemic benefits of India’s much ... Read more

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  • Private Profits versus Public Policy

    The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Canadian State

    by Joel Lexchin ...
    The widespread condemnation of drastic price increases on life-saving drugs highlights our growing dependency on and vulnerability to international pharmaceutical conglomerates. However, aren’t the interests of the public supposed to supersede the pursuit of private profit?In his new work, Private Profits versus Public Policy, Joel Lexchin addresses this question as he examines how public policy ... Read more

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  • Access to Medicines as a Human Right

    Implications for Pharmaceutical Industry Responsibility

    by Lisa Forman, Jillian Clare Kohler ...
    According to the World Health Organization, one-third of the global population lacks access to essential medicines. Should pharmaceutical companies be ethically or legally responsible for providing affordable medicines for these people, even though they live outside of profitable markets? Can the private sector be held accountable for protecting human beings' right to health?This thought-provoking ... Read more

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  • In Search of the Perfect Health System

    by Mark Britnell ...
    Winner of the first prize in the Health and Social Care category at the BMA Medical Book Awards 2016.With chapters on 25 different countries, this practical and succinct guide to the world's major health systems explores what lessons can be drawn from each to improve health worldwide. Each chapter is an essay designed to give the reader essential knowledge of the history, strengths, weaknesses and ... Read more

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  • Multinational Enterprises and Sustainable Development

    Edited by Pervez N. Ghauri, Xiaolan Fu, Juha Väätänen ...
    Series Book 33 - International Business and Management
    Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are believed to contribute towards economic development of host countries through foreign direct investment (FDI), which results in poverty alleviation and human empowerment through linkages and spillovers with local stakeholders. However, earlier research demonstrates that the positive impact of FDI is often inconclusive. There is thus a gap in understanding the ... Read more

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  • Negotiating Health

    Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines

    Edited by Pedro Roffe, Geoff Tansey ...
    In developing countries, access to affordable medicines for the treatment of diseases such as AIDS and malaria remains a matter of life or death. In Africa, for instance, more than one million children die each year from malaria alone, a figure which could soon be far higher with the extension of patent rules for pharmaceuticals. Previously, access to essential medicines was made possible by the ... Read more

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  • Interpreting TRIPS

    Globalisation of Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Medicines

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    Protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) has become a global issue. The Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) Agreement outlines the minimum standards for IPR protection for WTO members and offers a global regime for IPR protection. However, the benefits of TRIPS are more questionable in poorer countries where national infrastructure for research and development (R&D) and ... Read more

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  • The Global Pharmaceutical Industry

    The Demise and the Path to Recovery

    by Daniel Hoffman, Allan Bowditch ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
    The pharmaceutical industry, long thought of as a recession-proof investment, now faces a day of reckoning. The reasons for this impending downfall are not hard to discern. The prices the industry charges for its prescription drugs have escalated at four to five times the cost-of-living increases during the past two decades and have reached a point where 30% of Americans must choose between ... Read more

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