Endnote. Mixed deaf-hearing families: maximizing benefits and minimizing risks

Maximizing the benefits and minimizing the risks of intervention programs to address micronutrient malnutrition: symposium report

Interventions to address micronutrient deficiencies have large potential to reduce the related disease and economic burden. However, the potential risks of excessive micronutrient intakes are often not well determined. During the Global Summit on Food Fortification, 9-11 September 2015, in Arusha, a symposium was organized on micronutrient risk-benefit assessments. Using case studies on folic a...

Sharing clinical trial data: maximizing benefits, minimizing risk.

Money Market Funds – Preserving Systemic Benefits, Minimizing Systemic Risks

During September 2008, soon after Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 protection, the Reserve Primary Fund, a large and prominent money market mutual fund, “broke the buck”: it declared a net asset value that was less that the $1 per share that is standard for such funds as a result of marking down the value of Lehman debt in its portfolio. This event triggered a large number of redemptions fr...

Minimizing Breaks by Maximizing

Political Economy of Transboundary Movements of E-Waste: Maximizing Efficiency and Minimizing Risks

E-waste is traded between developed-developing and between technologically advanced developing-developing countries. The push and pull factors are influencing import and export demand of e-waste. The ‘Basel Ban’ signatory both developed and developing countries are lax in ‘Ban’ enforcement as the transboundary movement of ewaste is a complementary need for them. The harmful effects of hazardous...