South Africa has set itself the goal of providing universal coverage of health-care services by 2025, with its National Health Insurance system that is being rolled out over 14 years. The challenges are familiar in other low and middle-income countries that have set themselves similar ambitious goals. For Malebona Precious Matsoso, the director-general of the South African National Department o...

BACKGROUND The prospects for global tuberculosis control in the near future will be determined by the effectiveness of the response of countries to their burden of multidrug-resistant (MDR; resistance to, at least, isoniazid and rifampicin) tuberculosis. During the 2009 World Health Assembly, countries committed to achieve universal access to MDR-tuberculosis care by 2015. We assessed the progr...

The article highlights the peculiarities of development China's geopolitical potential in face modern challenges. It is pointed out that today China increasing its political, economic and cultural influence world. noted one fastest growing economies world, it has become largest exporter while also imports. Thus, average growth Chinese exports recent decades increased 5 times, imports – 4.7 time...

Purpose Our understanding of the influence institutional conditions on process innovation is still limited, despite managers’ need to know which factors should be considered in decision-making and governments aware how foster through provision attractive institutions. Therefore, this paper aims examine dimensions such as workforce, political instability, labor regulation, corruption, tax admini...

BIOS, a Canadian initiative that assembles information on the global state of GM crops approvals as well as public policy, regulatory, and risk assessment expertise for biotechnology products in different countries [2]; and the International Service for the Acquisition of Agribiotech Applications (ISAAA), which publishes periodic overviews and analyses GM crop adoption worldwide [3]. The data a...

BACKGROUND The burden of non-communicable disease (NCDs) has grown rapidly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where populations are ageing, with rising prevalence of multimorbidity (more than two co-existing chronic conditions) that will significantly increase pressure on already stretched health systems. We assess the impact of NCD multimorbidity on healthcare utilisation and out-of-...

During the past two decades, financial markets across globe have experienced sporadic waves of crashes. Such raise concerns about vulnerability global and transmission mechanisms shocks beyond borders. The current study examines co-movement stock in BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China South Africa) countries United States America (US). It unfolds their exposure to contagion effects during major...

We analyze the sovereign bond issuance data of eight major emerging markets (EMs) - Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and Turkey from 1970 to 2018. Our analysis suggests that (i) EM local currency bonds tend be smaller in size, shorter maturity, or lower coupon rate than foreign bonds; (ii) EMs are more likely issue local-currency if their currencies appreciated befo...

Little information exists about the loss of all one's teeth (edentulism) among older adults in low- and middle-income countries. This study examines the prevalence of edentulism and associated factors among older adults in a cross-sectional study across six such countries. Data from the World Health Organization (WHO's) Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) Wave 1 was used for this stu...

In November 2008, European Commission initiated a collaborative research and information dissemination project entitled “European Network for global cooperation in the field of AIDS and TB (EUCO-Net)” involving Institutions in Europe (Germany, Belgium, Italy), Latin America (Brazil, Argentina, Colombia), Russia, South Africa, and India with the following objectives: a) to provide an overview of...