Singapore’s economic development: pro- or anti-Washington Consensus?

Debating China ’ s Economic Growth : The Beijing Consensus or The Washington Consensus

Executive Overview This paper presents two competing views on China’s growth experience over the past three decades. For the sake of illustrative ease and brevity I label these two opposing views as the Beijing Consensus and the Washington Consensus. The Beijing Consensus interprets China’s economic growth as a function of innovations in the state sector, including close financial controls, sta...

From Washington Consensus to BeST Consensus for World Development

BCL-2: pro-or anti-oxidant?

Bcl-2 is recognized as an oncoprotein via its ability to impede death signaling by sequestrating pro-apoptotic proteins such as Bax and Bak as well as preserving mitochondrial outer membrane integrity. Recently, a growing body of evidence has evaluated the role of Bcl-2 in intracellular redox regulation and its downstream effects on life and death decisions in cancer cells. On the backdrop of t...

Opioids and neovascularization; pro or anti?

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Assisted suicide: pro-choice or anti-life?

The argument that acceptance of assisted suicide is an outgrowth of respect for personal autonomy departs from the traditional American value that holds life more basic than freedom and serves freedom by discouraging rather than assisting self-destruction. The sociological argument that removal of the taboo against assisted suicide will lead to the destructive expansion of the right to kill th...