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Spending on Medical Research Falls in U.S. While Growing Globally
Spending on medical research is waning in the United States, and this trend could have dire consequences for patients, physicians and the health care industry as a whole, a new analysis reveals.
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- Education, Health Care
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Capitalism Begins at Home
Joseph Schumpeter argued that the miracle of capitalism lies in democratising wealth. Elizabeth I owned silk stockings, he observed, but the “capitalist achievement” does not lie in “providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within reach of factory girls.” In most areas of life this miracle has been working magnificently: in America the number of hours of work that it takes to buy a car, or a wardrobe full of clothes, has halved in the past generation. But in three big areas it has singularly failed to operate: health care, education and housing.
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- Education
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Army of Women Educates on Trachoma in Ethiopia
An army of women” in Ethiopia has been recruited to teach friends and neighbors how to prevent trachoma, an eye disease that’s preventable but still very common in many parts of Ethiopia. The confederation of national development NGO’s -- Light For The World – has been working to implement national eye health initiatives to prevent trachoma and other eye diseases through the World Health Organization’s initiative “VISION 2020—the right to sight”.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Incubating Expertise: Fostering partnerships within the community – part 4 in a series of BoP fundamentals
There are many potential pitfalls for businesses in emerging markets but, to some extent, these issues can be mitigated by partnering and collaborating with local organizations and experts.
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- Education
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Assessing ROI in Educational Development: In India, assessment tools are still lacking, but change is coming
In India, there is a growing realization that quality of school education has to significantly improve in India, particularly for underprivileged students. Prachi Windlass at the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation says a wider dialogue on applying a robust assessment framework to education in India is needed.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Research, Policy, and the Private Sector: Sir Richard Feachem on Malaria
Sir Richard Feachem led the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria from its inception in 2002 until 2007, just one part of his illustrious career in public health. We were fortunate to host Sir Richard in November for a Development Policy Centre seminar.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, research
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Taking Health to the Global Scale
UCSD has become one of the first universities in the nation to offer global health as an undergraduate program.
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- Education, Health Care
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NexThought Monday – Why Did Vittana Close Down?: The real question: why don’t more organizations pull the plug?
Kate Cochran was part of a small team that decided to close Vittana, a nonprofit crowdfunding organization that aimed to spark student loan markets in the developing world. Cochran argues that more social enterprises, be they nonprofit or for-profit, should know when it’s time to call it quits.
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- Education
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- crowdfunding