Addressing climate challenges in developing countries

Gender in AIDS vaccine trials: addressing challenges in developing countries (November 2004)

Adaptation to climate change in developing countries.

Adaptation to climate change is given increasing international attention as the confidence in climate change projections is getting higher. Developing countries have specific needs for adaptation due to high vulnerabilities, and they will in this way carry a great part of the global costs of climate change although the rising atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations are mainly the responsibili...

Cancer in developing countries: challenges and solutions.

In 2002 there were 5.1 million new cases of cancer in developed countries and 5.8 million new cases in developing countries. However, by 2020 it is predicted that the majority of the 15–20 million new cases of cancer will occur in developing countries [1, 2]. A third of these cancers are preventable and another third are treatable if detected early. The most prevalent cancers in developing coun...

Promoting Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries: Policy Challenges

Promoting Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries: Policy Challenges T RECENT ENTHUSIASM OF DONORS, DEVELOPMENT agencies and governments for promoting entrepreneurship as a route to development is perplexing. Entrepreneurs, called “heroes” by The Economist (14 March, 2009), appear upon closer scrutiny to be rather irrelevant and even impotent in many developing countries. Three decades ago, Na...

Challenges of anaesthesia research in developing countries.