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New paper – the role of the private sector in achieving Universal Health Coverage in India

Healthcare Publications By admin|April 10, 2013 |0

By Debashis Chakraborty Our third briefing paper argues that the private sector will have to play a key role in increasing health provision in India, given the weakness of much existing public provision. Although the government has had the ambitio [...]

Fake medicines in Asia No. 2: The importance of brands to medicine quality

Healthcare Publications By admin|March 5, 2013 |0

Fake medicines are becoming a critical problem in Asia, constituting between 15 and 25% of the market in countries like India and Indonesia. Even highly regulated markets like Malaysia have a prevalence rate of around 5%, according to Ministry of [...]

Fake medicines in Asia

Healthcare Policy Ideas Publications By admin|February 13, 2013 |0

Fake medicines – which are either criminally motivated or the result of lax manufacturing standards – are a worsening problem, particularly in Asia. In some of poorer parts of the continent, up to a quarter of medicines fail quality te [...]

Free Trade and Markets in Healthcare: Lessons from Asia

Healthcare Other Publications Publications By admin|January 15, 2013 |0

It is widely recognised that the global liberalisation of trade in goods over the last several decades has driven unprecedented increases in productivity, innovation and living standards. However, many policymakers remain reluctant to open up serv [...]

Combating Fake Drugs in Malaysia

Healthcare Publications By admin|November 24, 2011 |0

This new paper titled “Keeping it real: Combating fake drugs in Malaysia”, looks into a life and death issue – fake drugs. The research paper was co-authored by Dr Helmy Haja Mydin, Fellow at IDEAS, with a team from the London-based International [...]