Provides a comprehensive exploration of bioethical issues outside of the dominant American and western European model. Using the Philippines as a case study, this title addresses how a developing country's economy, religion, and culture affect the bioethical landscape for doctors, patients, families, and the society as a whole.
Focusing on universal public health issues, this book explores what can be done and what the future holds. It introduces students and practitioners to behaviour change theories and applications. It details experiences of sucessful programmes for the prevention and control of the world's biggest killers: malnutrition; respiratory infections; ......
Focusing on universal public health issues, this book explores what can be done and what the future holds. It introduces students and practitioners to behaviour change theories and applications. It details experiences of sucessful programmes for the prevention and control of the world's biggest killers: malnutrition; respiratory infections; ......
This twelfth annual survey of emerging stock markets, prepared by the Emerging Markets Group of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), is the premier source of its kind. It provides essential coverage of stock market characteristics for the 45 markets covered by the IFC's three highly regarded stock market indexes -- the Global, Investable, ......
Why, while Europe, North America, and Australia have developed, have Africa, much of Asia, and Latin America remained underdeveloped? Andre Gunder Frank sets out to answer this basic question by showing how world capital accumulation has led to the differentiation of these regions within the single world-embracing economic system. Unequal exchange ......
Multinational Managers and Developing Country Concerns
This volume examines a key social issue currently facing the world: the misallocation of resources and opportunities among its population. It covers not only the development gap between industrialised and developing countries, but also the widening gap within the developing countries themselves.
This important volume examines the ethical concerns of multinational corporations in the production, distribution, and use of pharmaceuticals in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The 33 contributors to the book, which include pharmaceutical executives, religious activists, consumer advocates, officials of nongovernmental organizations, ......
A challenge to economic theories that view the household as a harmonious unit with a single decision-maker, this book shows that in the Third World the household is an arena of conflict marked by inequality and negotiation over income and expenditures. Dwyer and Bruce's introduction is followed by eleven field studies: four in Asia, four in Africa ......