Market Failures and Orphan Diseases

Ariel Pablos-Mendez, Sunil Chacko and Tim Evans
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Ariel Pablos-Mendez: Rockefeller Foundation, New York, USA
Sunil Chacko: Not available
Tim Evans: Ciudad del Guatemala, Guatemala

Development, 1999, vol. 42, issue 4, 79-83

Abstract: Ariel Pablos-Mendez, Sunil Chacko and Timothy Evans discuss the growing problem of market failures in the development of essential vaccines and drugs for orphan diseases, as well as the public–private mechanisms available to bring the opportunity of new science and technology to bear on diseases of the poor. Development (1999) 42, 79–83. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1110090

Date: 1999
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