Technical Training Aid a Good Investment

Is biomedical research a good investment?

As the US addresses its budget dilemma, the easiest items to cut are those with the longest-term payoff. Research stands out among this group. Biomedical research has already been markedly reduced, and further reductions appear to be in store. As a frequent witness in Congressional hearings on such matters, here I discuss the challenge of assessing the value of investments in biomedical research.

How to Write a Good Technical Article

I EEE Software receives about 200 manuscripts each year, of which we publish approximately 50 to 75. Each manuscript goes through an in-depth peer review process and is reviewed by our associate editors in chief and me. In addition, guest editors review special-issue manuscripts. Four years as editor in chief of IEEE Software have shown me countless examples of the differences between good and ...

Aid and Foreign Direct Investment in Vietnam

This short paper explores the complementarity between foreign aid and foreign direct investment (FDI). Recent studies on aid concluded that aid should come to an end or be reduced with a radical modification of the terms and conditions and FDI and trade should replace aid as the engine of development. In this paper, we argue that aid complements FDI and advances the efficacy of FDI in promoting...

Aid Effectiveness, Governance and Public Investment

To analyze ways in which aid can be made more effective, we develop a growth model in which aid finances infrastructure investment and pro-poor spending. We assume that the recipient countries are aid-dependent in the early phase of development and ultimately become independent. In the model, donors can accelerate the independence of a recipient from aid by investing in infrastructure. We demon...

Technical note:Beyond Good Laboratory Practice