Drug companies say they need to charge ever-higher prices to cover their research costs, but they spend far less on research and development than they do on marketing and administration, and afterwards they actually keep more in profits.
The International Health Partnership Plus is addressing the need to harmonize development assistance and reduce the current waste, duplication, and high transaction costs.
We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.
I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.
I was doing economic development for minorities. I was getting black folks to use their dollars to help each other.
Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
Intellectual property is a key aspect for economic development.
Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.
The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development.
The world view of economic development has completely changed: it is no longer believed to be driven by human labour, as Karl Marx said, or by capital, as Alfred Marshall stated, but is knowledge-driven.
The social justice movement of the 21st century is economic development.
The Columbia River Basin, which spans seven states in the Pacific Northwest, is one of the largest freshwater networks in North America. For centuries, the Basin has been a catalyst for economic development through the abundance of natural resources it provides.
Sometimes, promoting economic development means accepting the Herculean task of moving and modernizing a prison.
The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development.
It's all about making sure kids can have access to educational opportunities... you may not need a necessarily traditional college environment, but access to trades and employment development.
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
In 2012, Hillary Clinton's State Department, acting through its ambassador, Mari Carmen Aponte, threatened to withhold critical development aid unless El Salvador passed a major privatization law.
My work during the 1970s has been mainly concerned with the implications of the unified theory of weak and electromagnetic interactions, with the development of the related theory of strong interactions known as quantum chromodynamics, and with steps toward the unification of all interactions.
Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.
