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Toward improving factory working conditions in developing countries : an empirical analysis of bangladesh ready-made garment factories
Liu, Xiaojin; Mishra, Anant; Goldstein, Susan Meyer; … - In: Manufacturing & service operations management : M & SOM 21 (2019) 2, pp. 379-397
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Towards Improving Factory Working Conditions in Developing Countries : An Empirical Analysis of Bangladesh Ready-Made Garment Factories
Liu, Xiaojin - 2018
have been found to be unsafe. In this study, we focus on factories in the Bangladesh ready-made garment (RMG) industry that … for Bangladesh Worker Safety (Alliance). The consortium of European retailers is the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in … Bangladesh (Accord). The central question addressed in this study is: How do working conditions in a supplier factory impact the …
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Health systems and nutrition in the time of COVID-19
Khan, Amir Ullah; Bali, Vinita - In: Journal of social and economic development 23 (2021), pp. 332-341
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Economical effect on doubling of COVID-19 cases : examples of rich versus poor countries
Maher, Osama Ali; Mun, Dmitry; Giha, Fatma; Ali, Mayouson; … - In: Review of economics and political science : REPS 6 (2021) 1, pp. 48-58
Purpose The paper aims to examine some economical, political and health system indicators on the transmission of the COVID-19 transmission within the national system. The main objective is to investigate what are the most effective indicators which have led to the declared numbers by countries....
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The importance of investing in a public health system : evidence from COVID-19 mortality
Balakrishnan, Pulapre; Namboodhiry, Sreenath K. - In: Indian economic review : official journal of Delhi … 56 (2021) 1, pp. 233-254
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Corporate Wealth Over Public Health? Assessing the Resilience of Developing Countries' COVID-19 Responses Against Investment Claims and the Implications for Future Public Health Cr...
Hagemann, Tim - 2021
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, states around the world swiftly enacted a multitude of far-reaching emergency responses to contain the viruses’ spread and to cope with the economic repercussions of the ensuing crisis. However, these measures detrimentally impacted the operating...
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The economics of the COVID-19 pandemic in poor countries
Miguel, Edward; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended health and living standards around the world. This article provides an interim overview of these effects, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Economists have explained how the pandemic is likely to have differential consequences...
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The TRIPS waiver proposal: an urgent measure to expand access to the COVID-19 vaccines
Menezes, Henrique Zeferino de - 2021
Despite multilateral commitments and political statements of solidarity and cooperation to guarantee the availability and access to COVID-19 vaccines (and other relevant technologies for control and treatment), the scenario after the beginning of vaccination is marked by the deepening of vaccine...
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Trust in the healthcare system and COVID-19 treatment in the developing world : survey and experimental evidence from Armenia
Antinyan, Armenak; Bassetti, Thomas; Corazzini, Luca; … - 2020
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Patent analysis for medicines and biotherapeutics in trials to treat COVID-19
Ravi, Srividya - 2020
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