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Meeting the global health challenge: the role of the pharmaceutical industry

By Making It on 31 October, 2012

Professor Klaus M. Leisinger, chair of the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, explores some of the issues at the intersection between industry and health.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged access to medicines, Africa, Arogya Parivar, basic health rights, counterfeit medicines, CSR, generics, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, global health, intellectual property, Klaus M. Leisinger, LDCs, Making It, malaria, MDGs, Medicines for Malaria Venture, Millennium Development Goals, non-governmental organizations, Novartis, Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, pharmaceutical industry, public health resources, research-based pharmaceutical corporations, sanitation, UN Global Compact, Working Group on Access to Essential Medicines, World Health Organization Essential Medicines List, World Health Report

HIV/AIDS – a workplace issue

By Making It on 17 August, 2010

The loss of workers, and their skills and experience, due to AIDS, can increase the burden on the remaining workforce, lowering morale and reducing productivity.

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged AIDS, AIDS Business Coalition, antiretrovirals, condoms, discrimination, drugs, empowerment of women, epidemic, Ethiopian Business Coalition, HIV, HIV prevention, International Labour Organization, LDCs, microbicides, Pathfinder, PMTCT, preventive HIV technologies, recruitment, rights of employees, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania, TB/HIV co-infection, treatment, UNAIDS, workplace

Towards a more productive debate

By Making It on 5 August, 2010

With the discrediting of orthodox policies, and the exposure of the double standards of the rich countries, industrial policy is no longer taboo. Ha-Joon Chang explains.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Asian Development Bank, Economic Development, European Investment Bank, export, financial crisis, global environment, import substitution industrialization, industrial policy, Issue 3, LDCs, Oxfam, political economy, privatization, trade, trade liberalization, University of Cambridge, Washington Consensus, World Bank, World Trade Organization, WTO

A changing climate for industrial policy

By Making It on 4 August, 2010

Industrial policy has a key role to play in the transition to a resource-efficient, low-carbon growth trajectory.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged beijing consensus, Brazil, China, Dani Rodrik, discovery process, dogmatic prescriptions, economic crisis, emerging economies, FDI, Field Operations Division, foreign direct investment, green industry, India, industrial policy, industry, investment, Issue 3, Joshua Cooper Ramo, Krugman, LDCs, least developed countries, low-carbon growth, Lütkenhorst, pragmatism, Regional Strategies, resources, Sir Nicholas Stern, stakeholders, State Environmental Protection Agency, UNIDO, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Viet Nam, Washington Consensus

LDCs

Meeting the global health challenge: the role of the pharmaceutical industry

HIV/AIDS – a workplace issue

Towards a more productive debate

A changing climate for industrial policy

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