Word: dollarization
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...engineered to last up to five years. The cost to manufacture, ship and distribute each net is $10. A new generation of medicines based on artemisinin, an extract from a traditional Chinese herbal remedy, is remarkably effective in treating cases of the disease, at a cost of about a dollar per treatment...
...these solutions still aren't reaching the vast proportion of Africans in need. Hard as it is for us to imagine, Africa's households simply can't afford even $10 for a net, or a dollar for medicines when a child falls sick. Nor can African governments carry these costs on meager budgets or take extra vital steps to train local health workers and ensure that every village has reliable access to effective medicines...
...Unlike doctors, drug companies are truly and primarily businesses. They invest billions and come up with many great, new products which cannot be sold, whatsoever, without convincing doctors to prescribe them. Billion-dollar businesses will influence lawmaking in every kind of governmental system. Reps move product, making money for the companies and their millions of stockholders. Powerful people will make sure that process is allowed to continue...
...case of director grants, we don’t expect the dollar figures to be significant because, in general, the value of director grants is not large relative to the grants that are given to executives,” Bebchuk said. “The significance of the finding is from a governance perspective...
...areas farther away from jobs, neighborhood life, and public transportation. Harvard has the money and power, and so it feels entitled to the homes of poor Charlesview residents. But these residents don’t have the money or power to stand up alone to a multi-billion dollar corporation eyeing their little plot of concrete and community. That is why they have asked for student support...