Posted on September 23, 2017. Tags: Africa, Brazil, Ebola, global health, ppps, public private partnerships, vaccines, Zika
Earlier this month, French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi Pasteur announced that it was pulling the plug on its partnership with the US Army to develop two promising new Zika vaccines. A Sanofi representative said they could not continue due to, firstly, a decline in infection rates which reduced the number of people available for clinical trials, and, secondly, […]
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Posted in Africa, Latin America, World
Posted on September 15, 2015. Tags: Cities, development, Globalization, Housing, India, public private partnerships, South Asia, urban policy
The observant visitor to the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai is offered two contradictory faces of globalisation. Corrugated iron and blue polythene slums throw the air conditioned modernity of Mumbai’s adjacent airport into sharp relief. Few, if any, of these slum residents will ever board one of the planes that land and depart by […]
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Posted in Global Economy, India, World