Economy: worldwide accessibility for food/diminishing quantitative discrepancy between rich and poor countries providing a nutritional optimum per capita decreasing waste of food Food Security: tracing/tracking of animals and products developing a good agricultural practice building responsibility for the total supply chain Sustainability: meeting technical standards like CO 2 decrease/not livi...

The new global economic system has become a big problem to the developing economies. Such economies are passing through a period of dilemmas, contradictions and social challenges. The reasons may be attributed to the pressures exercised by the developed economies through WTO, structural adjustments, competitive markets, regionalisation of economies and domestic realities. The new global economi...

What areas should new researchers in developing countries choose in order to give relevant contributions to medical knowledge? Obviously the answer involves many different subjects. It seems to us that presently molecular medicine is very attractive. On the other hand, the applications of discoveries in molecular medicine and new therapeutic approaches require good clinical investigation method...

BACKGROUND: By the dawn of the third millennium, non communicable diseases are sweeping the entire globe, with an increasing trend in developing countries where, the transition imposes more constraints to deal with the double burden of infective and non-infective diseases in a poor environment characterised by ill-health systems. By 2020, it is predicted that these diseases will be causing seve...

Bioethics, the investigation of ethical issues in medicine, biology, and health sciences, is in vogue in the developed world. Television news often shows feature stories on debates over the proper uses of such new developments as embryonic stem cells or gene therapy, and newspapers elicit public comments on their Internet sites. Societal responses to these technological advances are mediated th...

Structural strategies have been adopted by many developing countries to reduce the income/technology gap between them and advanced countries. Results have been mixed, however; most countries have failed, but a few have succeeded, newly industrialized economies (NIEs) in particular. Lin (2003) divides the structural strategies into two types: the Comparative-Advantage-Defying (CAD) strategy foll...

Infectious and parasitic diseases create enormous health burdens, but because most of the people suffering from these diseases are poor, little is invested in developing treatments. We propose that developers of treatments for neglected diseases receive a "priority review voucher." The voucher could save an average of one year of U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review and be sold by the...

Wireless networks are often cited as the most economically feasible solution to the severe dearth of communications infrastructure in developing countries. In the short term, the deployment of wireless networks is indeed the optimal solution to the information infrastructure gap in developing countries. Many developing nations have embarked on this road and a loose formula of employing fixed ce...