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Regional Vaccine Manufacturing and Development
World Bank - 2023
COVID-19 has had a devastating effect on the ASEAN region, which has recorded over 27 million cases of the virus. Despite rapid development of a range of COVID-19 vaccines using innovative technologies, access to these vaccines has been a challenge, with manufacturing mostly concentrated in the...
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The epidemiological impact of an HIV vaccine on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Southern India
Nagelkerke, Nico J. D. - 2003
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Blood Services in Central Asian Health Systems : A Clear and Present Danger of Spreading HIV/AIDS and Other Infectious Diseases
World Bank - 2012
The report discusses inter-related parts of blood transfusions systems, and presents an overview of the parts that need to be strengthened in Central Asia. Numerous parts are in serious need of organizational restructuring, new investment and increased budgetary support for operation and...
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Republic of Kazakhstan : Evaluation of National Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Programs
World Bank - 2012
Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS have a significant impact on the economy and society of Kazakhstan and a growing challenge to the country's health system. Together these two diseases could severely constrain the future economic growth and the human capital development of the country. To face the...
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COVID-19 in South Asia : An Unequal Shock, An Uncertain Recovery - Findings on Labor Market Impacts from Round 1 of the SAR COVID Phone Monitoring Surveys
World Bank - 2022
All countries across South Asia, faced with the rising risks of COVID-19 infection rates, implemented severe economic lockdowns in early 2020 with varying frequencies and time periods. While the exact nature and duration of these lockdowns varied across countries in the South Asia Region (SAR),...
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The Sexually Transmitted Infections Prevention and Care Project, Zimbabwe
World Bank - 2012
) Prevention and Care Project in Zimbabwe has decreased costs for pharmaceuticals by 60 percent and increased the availability of …
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From Infection to Inflation
World Bank - 2023
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have faced extraordinary challenges over the last three years that reverted the social gains of the previous two decades. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in severe health impacts and a reversal in many of its socioeconomic gains. The unprecedented disruption...
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Putting Pandemics Behind Us : Investing in One Health to Reduce Risks of Emerging Infectious Diseases
World Bank - 2022
The COVID-19 crisis brought home the high costs of pandemics, triggering a historic setback in the fight against poverty. It also reinforced the interconnections between people, planet and economy, calling attention to the zoonotic nature of pathogens spilling over from animals to people. To...
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Diversification, innovation, and imitation inside the global technological frontier
Lederman, Daniel - 2006
the empirical relationship between economic development and (1) inside-the-frontier-innovation as reflected by the …-the-frontier innovation as reflected in patents. The data suggest, unsurprisingly, that inside-the-frontier innovation is more common among … changes in the industrial composition of exports. The authors use a simple model of innovation and imitation to test the …
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Do government policies that promote competition encourage or discourage new product and process development in low and middle-income countries?
Clarke, George - 2005
not feel pressure (Carlin and others 2001; World Bank 2004). However, competition also appears to affect innovation in … of competition and, consequently, assesses their net impact on innovation. He finds that reducing tariffs and enacting … and enforcing competition laws modestly increases both the pressure that firms feel regarding innovation and the level of …
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