More than three-fourths of the world's population live in so-called developing countries: nations that may not have a stable economy, energy supply, or advanced technology, and whose population may lack access to jobs, food, water, education, health care, and housing. RAND takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the problems facing developing countries and recommends policy solutions for global, national, and local economies.
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This study aimed to explore the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in undergraduate medical education in developing countries.
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Esther Duflo—named by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the world's top 100 public intellectuals and by The Economist as one of the top 8 young economists in the world—conducts research on economic issues in developing countries.
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This report examines the impact of intellectual property rights in developing countries, in the context of the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and the development of TRIPS-plus standards.
Commentary
The increasing importance of the G-20 summits, which include developing heavyweights such as Brazil, Russia, China and India, is testimony to the growing role emerging states now play in managing the international economy. But integrating these newcomers into the global community is unlikely to be straightforward or simple writes Lowell Schwartz.
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Despite the huge protests on the streets of Tehran, Iranian President Ahmadinejad has once again triumphed. A relative newcomer to Iranian politics, Ahmadinejad's re-election and subsequent crackdown on the demonstrators suggest that the Iranian political system is moving in a new and potentially dangerous direction, writes Alireza Nader.
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This paper considers evidence for the effects of policies on gender gaps in education, distinguishing between policies that are ostensibly gender neutral and those that explicitly target girls. The demand for girls' schooling is often more responsive than boys' to gender neutral changes in school distance, price, and quality, patterns which can be explained in a human capital investment model through assumptions about girls' and boys' schooling costs and returns. Among policies that target girls' enrollments, price incentives to households or schools and the provision of female teachers appear to be effective. Other interventions hold promise but have not been the subject of rigorous evaluation, pointing to an important agenda for future research.
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Describes prevalence of antiretroviral resistance in the developing world, focusing on treatment naive populations, resistance consequences of regimes to prevent mother-to-child transmission, and the relationship of medication adherence to resistance.
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Examines the effectiveness of foreign aid to developing countries.
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June 1, 2006 News Release: Advanced Countries Will Benefit Most from Progress in Technology, with Lesser Benefits to Other Nations.
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April 12, 2006 News Release: RAND Study Recommends Extensive Mental Health Training for Health Providers in Conflict-Affected Countries
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Mental health care for trauma-exposed populations in conflict-affected developing countries is often provided by PHPs.
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Describes the circumstances of four countries whose reductions in child mortality exceeded what might be expected from their poor economic circumstances, and asks whether they followed common routes to improved health for children.
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In this paper, the authors outline an approach for modelling the health benefits of new diagnostic tools.
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Acute lower respiratory infections (ALRIs) are the primary killer of children in developing countries.
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Stunting affects approximately 147 million children in developing countries.
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The authors estimated the impact of hypothetical new diagnostic tests for tuberculosis (TB) in patients with persistent cough in developing countries.
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There is a great need for improved diagnosis of curable bacterial sexually transmitted infections among women in developing countries.
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Examines various approaches, methodologies, and issues related toevaluation of the impact of health programs in developing countries and waysto make program evaluation more rigorous.
Commentary
Published commentary by RAND staff.
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Assesses current systems for tracking health resource flows to and within developing countries to determine what would constitute a truly global tracking system able to address both the needs of potential users and the current systems’ limitations.
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