Too frequently, countries find themselves with their metaphorical backs up against a wall. When this happens policy makers face a host of difficult choices. Think of Germany in the 1920s, the U.S. throughout the 1930s, or South Africa in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Today in Mauritius people also talk
Incremental improvements are the best route to health reform. Many positive steps have a better chance of succeeding than a single giant leap, which could prove disastrous if wrong. All the signs indicate that government is edging towards following the more cautious route, a decision that will be welcomed, not
Imagine a typical underdeveloped country with power and wealth concentrated in a few hands. A really poor country, but by no means the poorest in the world, with conditions certainly worse in neighbouring countries. Large numbers of people living in abject poverty, with many on the verge of starvation. A
As you are reading this, somewhere in a forgotten clinic or on the floor of a dark hut, a young child is dying of malaria. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) the disease robs a child of his or her life every thirty seconds; akin to crashing 7 Jumbo
In the last week of July the malaria community from the East and Southern Africa regions came together in Lusaka, Zambia for their annual planning and review meeting. This important meeting provides a forum to review the malaria control programmes of each of the 22 countries in the region and
Poor Karl Marx, he seemed to ask great questions but get the answers completely backwards.
Consider the keystone of his economics: “A use value, or useful article, therefore, has value only because human labour in the abstract has been embodied or materialised in it.” In other words he was saying things
