In 2008 the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) commissioned ten think-tanks to work on disease-specific and thematic reference groups to identify top research priorities that would advance the research agenda on infectious diseases of poverty, thus contributing to improvements in human health. The first of the thematic reference gro...

If the United Nations system is to remain relevant, or even survive, thinking re-imagine and redesign contemporary global governance will come from Third UN. This article focuses on ecology of supportive non-state actors – intellectuals, scholars, consultants, think tanks, NGOs, for-profit private sector, media that interacts with intergovernmental machinery First UN international civil servant...

Colleagues, legislative staff, interest groups, administrative agencies, universities and think tanks, the media, and constituents are some of the more commonly recognized sources of information for state legislators. Results of a survey of 507 legislators in 12 U.S. states reveal that ethnic associations, grassroots organizations, the Internet, local branches of national or state organizations...

Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper provides a systematic evaluation of the e ect of corruption on growth, using metaanalysis techniques for 460 estimates from 41 studies. We nd that publication bias, albeit acute, does not dissipate the genuine and negative e ect of corruption on growth. Among the main factors explaining the variation in the estimated effec...

For the past 20 years the US military services have suffered under the limitations of stove-piped computer software applications that function as discrete entities within a fragmented dataprocessing environment. Lack of interoperability has been identified by numerous think tanks, advisory boards, and studies, as the primary information systems problem (e.g., Army Science Board 2000, Air Force ...

To the Editor of "The Indian Medical Gazette." Sir,? Many thanks for publishing my letter about Mosquito Brigades. My book on this subject is now nearly out. I enclose a list of our publications, and sent you some days ago my First Progress Sierra Leone Report. Now we send Annett and Dutton's Filaria Report, which you will see is a valuable work. Well, I do not think much has yet been done agai...

As the businesses move towards complex and globally integrated scenario, active innovation is becoming vital for the survival of organizations. Knowledge-base in society in the form of discussion groups, communities of practices, think tanks and universities can be used as a valuable resource for generating new ideas or innovative views on complex problems. The paper views the problem from acti...

for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra), focuses on future international policies in the area of climate change. Carried out by a consortium of universities, think tanks and non-governmental organisations in Europe, India and the US, the main aim of the programme is directed towards the use of economic incentives and instruments in the implementation of climate policies, and towards the d...