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Sustainable approaches to healthcare
Governments and non-profit aid organisations need to create a market for drugs, build better healthcare delivery systems, and keep trained medical personnel from leaving the developing world if they are to improve health in the world?s poorest countries, according to panelists who spoke at a Wharton Social Impact Management conference in January. Story available here. ...
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- The Financial Express
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`The fortune is indeed at the bottom of the pyramid`: Interview with Ratan Tata, by T N Ninan and P
The fastest growth, Ratan Tata says, does indeed lie at the bottom of the pyramid and discusses his group?s plans to get to it, including a fundamental re-look at how products/services are produced. Interview available here. ...
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- The Business Standard
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Kraft, Kellogg eye emerging markets
International expansion is key for the two of the largest U.S. food companies, company executives said on Monday, but it comes with its share of risks. Speaking at the Reuters Food Summit, Kraft Foods Inc., the largest U.S. food company, said it plans to push deeper into emerging markets this year, but breaking into India has proven to be more of a challenge than anticipated. And Kellogg Co., the world’s largest cereal maker, said it was taking a cautious approach on China due to cost consid...
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- Reuters
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Nestl? boss starts an African crusade
The boss of the world?s largest food company will tell the conference that trade barriers in Europe and America have done more damage to Africa than Third World debt - which has dominated the debate on relieving poverty there. Delegates at the conference - which is being organised by the BBC - include Sir Bob Geldof and Peter Mandelson, the EU commissioner for external trade. ?We are spending in Europe and the US $1 billion dollars every day protecting our agriculture indu...
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- Times Online
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Drug giants export trials to China, new markets
Western drugmakers are shifting more clinical trials to emerging markets in a bid to save money, speed research and educate a new generation of local doctors about their products. Just how far the trend has gone was highlighted on Wednesday when researchers announced results from a 46,000-patient trial in China, funded by Sanofi-Aventis SA, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co and AstraZeneca Plc. The study on blood thinner Plavix and beta blocker Toprol XL, presented at the American College...
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- Daily Times
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Medical tourism set to take off in a big way, by Shardul Nautiyal and Sapna Dogra
With world class healthcare professionals, nursing care and treatment cost almost one-sixth of that in the developed countries, India is witnessing 30 per cent growth in medical tourism per year. According to a CII-McKinsey study, medical tourism can contribute Rs 5,000-10,000 crore additional revenue for up-market tertiary hospitals by 2012. India is the most touted healthcare destination for countries like South-East Asia, Middle East, Africa, Mauritius, Tanzania, Bangla...
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- Express Pharma Pulse
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The real digital divide
Encouraging the spread of mobile phones is the most sensible and effective response to the digital divide It was an idea born in those far-off days of the internet bubble: the worry that as people in the rich world embraced new computing and communications technologies, people in the poor world would be left stranded on the wrong side of a ?digital divide?. Five years after the technology bubble burst, many ideas from the time?that ?eyeballs? matter more than profits or tha...
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- The Economist
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Calling across the divide
A necdotal evidence for mobile phones’ ability to boost economic activity is abundant: they enable fishermen or farmers to check prices at different markets before selling produce, make it easier for people to look for jobs, and prevent wasted journeys. Mobile phones reduce transaction costs, broaden trade networks and substitute for costly physical transport. They are of particular value when other means of communication (such as roads...
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- The Economist
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