This paper examines the challenges and opportunities facing the agricultural biotechnology sector as it works to sustain innovations and further propagate its benefits into the new century. We survey the milestones of technological, legal, and economic precedence in this area and discuss institutional mechanisms for public and private partnership that can help agricultural biotechnology fulfill...

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Understanding preference of source of contraceptive commodities is essential in enhancing the delivery of family planning services. This paper identifies the determinants of preferred source of Depo-Provera among rural women in Uganda. The analysis is based on data sourced from a Save the Children and Family Health International study involving 642 women who were introduced to the contraceptive...

In much of the developing world, private health care providers and pharmacies are the most important sources of medicine and medical care and yet these providers are frequently not considered in planning for public health. This paper presents the available evidence, by socioeconomic status, on which strata of society benefit from publicly provided care and which strata use private health care. ...

whenever we are analyzing the intellectual property rights we shall treat the enjoyment capacity as a principal issue of the private international laws. the enjoyment capacity of foreigner on intellectual property rights is determined based on the nature of these rights on the legal systems. the economic nature of these rights dictates that the private aspect of these rights to be recognized in...

Public pensions and private saving are commonly considered complementary funding sources from which the elderly should draw simultaneously throughout their retirement. This paper shows that sequential use of funding sources would be significantly more effi cient —a period of entirely private funding followed by a period of consumption fully financed by public pensions. Thus the standard multi-p...