Is agricultural research still a public good?

Is international agricultural research a global public good? The case of rice biofortification.

The status of international agricultural research as a global public good (GPG) has been widely accepted since the Green Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. While the term was not used at the time of its creation, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) system that evolved at that time has been described as a 'prime example of the promise, performance and perils of ...

Funding Public Agricultural Research

Relaxing Goodness Is Still Good

Polygonal hybrid systems (SPDIs) are planar hybrid systems, whose dynamics are defined in terms of constant differential inclusions, one for each of a number of polygonal regions partitioning the plane. The reachability problem for SPDIs is known to be decidable, but depends on the goodness assumption — which states that the dynamics do not allow a trajectory to both enter and leave a region th...

is hair lice still a public health problem?

no abstract

What is good public deliberation?

March-April 2012 When assigned the task of describing and updating essential health benefits for qualified health plans in the Affordable Care Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services turned to the Institute of Medicine for advice. An IOM committee recommended that “structured public deliberative processes be established to identify the values and priorities of those citizens eligible to...