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Improving governance using IT systems
Shah, Ajay - eSocialSciences - 2005
The main argument of this paper is that in many situations, dicult puzzles of governance can be solved in dramatically new ways using modern IT systems. Nationwide centralised databases, coupled with ubiquitous high-speed Internet access, and pervasive computational power, has put a new set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487774
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Development and Health in Poor Countries: Role of Interntional Organizations and Switzerland
Briand, Bastein; Colli, Lorenza Eder; Gut, Anne; Henny, … - eSocialSciences - 2011
The study tries to better understand three fields which seems to be essential with respect to the problem of a facilitated access to medicines : 1. the ambiguous position of intellectual property (IP) rights in the more general framework of human rights ; 2. the mechanism which enabled the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364238
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Extended Families and Child Well-being
LaFave, Daniel; Thomas, Duncan - eSocialSciences - 2014
among extended family members. IFLS is ideally suited for this research since the survey collects detailed information about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026234
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How Can We Draw the Line Between Clinical Care and Medical Research?
Medicine, PLoS - eSocialSciences - 2007
When research takes place within the context of clinical care, how can we distinguish which activities constitute care …, and which research? The editors of PLoS Medicine believe that open access to research findings is the most direct way of … clinical trials, however, there is a great diversity of other types of clinical research that must be reported. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487601
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Reproductive Health Research Priorities in India: a Framework for Action
Agarwal, Dinesh - eSocialSciences - 2007
A research framework is proposed that needs to be pursued in order to achieve RCH goals in time bound manner. It is … being argued that need for additional research inputs largely stems from the current gaps in programme performance [Paper …
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