Developing countries: European split

European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)

EDCTP was established by the European Union in 2003. The first EDCTP program ran until 2015 and focused on HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. It supported numerous clinical trials that aimed to have a significant impact on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of these diseases. In light of significant unmet medical needs, the scope of EDCTP was extended in 2014, now covering neglected infec...

The European Social Model: Lessons for Developing Countries

Developing countries, in particular the least developed ones, probably have more to learn from social policies in Europe during the early 20 century than from the elaborate welfare-state arrangements after World War II. In addition to macroeconomic growth and stability, the main ambitions must be to fight human deprivation, including illiteracy, malnutrition, poor access to water and sanitation...

European Union’s Public Fishing Access Agreements in Developing Countries

The imperative to increase seafood supply while dealing with its overfished local stocks has pushed the European Union (EU) and its Member States to fish in the Exclusive Economic Zones of other countries through various types of fishing agreements for decades. Although European public fishing agreements are commented on regularly and considered to be transparent, this is the first global and h...

Developing leaders? Developing countries?

A visit to Ghana, with the hosts interested in developing leaders and the guest interested in developing countries, led to a questioning of both. Three approaches to development are discussed. The top-down government planning approach, discredited with the fall of communism, has been replaced by an outside-in ‘globalisation’ approach, which is now promoted as the way to develop an economy. But ...

Developing Countries