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How Brazil can win back investors
Investors will be waiting on the sidelines until they see that Brasilia is making a true and concerted effort to stamp out corruption and govern in a way fitting for the world's seventh-largest economy.
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- Latin America
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- governance
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Rwanda is building a strong economic reputation
Ask any expat about Rwanda and its bloody genocide is likely to feature strongly, rather than the fact it has one of the world’s best performing economies.
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- Education
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Let’s set a global drug quality benchmark
The crisis in Indian pharma is a chance to develop a new regulatory path
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- Health Care
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- governance, public health
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Q&A: Jeffrey Sachs on the world’s post-MDG future
The UN special advisor and director of a key science network tells SciDev.Net what the road to 2015 will look like.
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- Health Care
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What will happen when the MDGs expire?
The UN High Level Panel report has a universal focus USAID, under a CC License
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- governance
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UN panel’s post-2015 goals: ‘Promising start’ or ‘lacking a roadmap’?
Just hours after the 27-member U.N. High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda unveiled its recommendations to replace the MDGs in New York, the thousands of stakeholders involved in the process began to analyze how the framework will affect international cooperation and the delivery of foreign aid until 2030.
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- Education, Health Care
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- governance, public health
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A Lose-Lose Situation: How medical insourcing impacts developing and developed countries (Part 2)
The shortage of medical professionals is a global problem, affecting both rich and poor countries. But though developed-world health care centers are responding by recruiting workers from abroad, Dr. Kate Tulenko argues that this is the wrong approach. In her book, Insourced: How Importing Jobs Impacts the Healthcare Crisis Here and Abroad, she explains why medical insourcing is a lose-lose situation for all countries involved. In part 2 of our Q & A, she discusses some possible solutions.
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- Health Care
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A Turbulent Transition: Afghanistan’s private health care sector emerges
When Afghanistan is in the news, it’s not generally because of health care. But alongside the country’s political turmoil, its health care system has been undergoing a transformation of its own. Departing from its long-standing distrust of for-profit health care, the Afghan government is now seeking to engage with the private sector. CHMI’s Rose Reis interviews Dr. Omarzaman Sayedi of Futures Group about the country’s transition to a free-market health system.
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- Health Care
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- governance, public health