‘I will not Work in such Conditions any more…’

Machine Translation will not Work

Large expenditures on fundamental scientific research are usually limited to the hard sciences. It is therefore entirely reasonable to suppose that, if large sums of money are spent on machine translations, it will be with the clear expectation that what is being purchased is principally development and engineering, and that the result will contribute substantially to the solution of some press...

When size is not important any more

Wireless phone companies, especially with number portability, sell a product that is less and less different, that is to say, a commodity. That is the reason scale economies play a very important role in this market. Given that it is not possible to make a large margin on the service that they offer, companies must focus their strategies on saving costs. Moreover, the more clients a company has...

Preventing suicide: what will work and what will not.

Capitation based prescribing budgets will not work

General practice prescribing costs have risen rapidly in recent years, and there are wide variations between practices in rates and costs of prescribing. Setting general practice prescribing budgets with a capitation based formula seems to offer a solution to these problems. However, capitation based formulas may unfairly penalise legitimate variations and increases in prescribing costs. We the...

‘This year I will not put her to work’: the production/reproduction nexus in Burkina Faso

Global advocacy campaigns increasingly highlight the negative impact of reproductive morbidity on economic productivity and development in order to justify donor investment in maternal health. Anthropological approaches nuance such narrow economic estimations of reproductive health. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork from Burkina Faso in West Africa, this paper analyses the dynamic, and sometime...