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Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases
Michael Kremer
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Description for Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases
Hardback.
Millions of people in the third world die from diseases that are rare in the first world--diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, and schistosomiasis. AIDS, which is now usually treated in rich countries, still ravages the world's poor. Vaccines offer the best hope for controlling these diseases and could dramatically improve health in poor countries. But developers have little incentive to undertake the costly and risky research needed to develop vaccines. This is partly because the potential consumers are poor, but also because governments drive down prices. In Strong Medicine, Michael Kremer and Rachel Glennerster offer an innovative yet simple solution to ... Read more
Millions of people in the third world die from diseases that are rare in the first world--diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, and schistosomiasis. AIDS, which is now usually treated in rich countries, still ravages the world's poor. Vaccines offer the best hope for controlling these diseases and could dramatically improve health in poor countries. But developers have little incentive to undertake the costly and risky research needed to develop vaccines. This is partly because the potential consumers are poor, but also because governments drive down prices. In Strong Medicine, Michael Kremer and Rachel Glennerster offer an innovative yet simple solution to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691121130
SKU
V9780691121130
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About Michael Kremer
Michael Kremer is Gates Professor of Developing Societies at Harvard University, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and NonResident Fellow at the Center for Global Development. He founded and was the first executive director of WorldTeach, a nonprofit organization that places two hundred volunteer teachers annually in developing countries (1986-1989). He previously served as a teacher in Kenya. Rachel Glennerster ... Read more
Reviews for Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases
Winner of the 2004 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Medical Science, Association of American Publishers "This book should interest anyone involved in international public health, politics and economics. It is a valuable effort to find a practical solution to a major problem."
Pierre Chirac, Nature
Pierre Chirac, Nature