This ranges from simple on-arrival procedures for short stays in places like Nicaragua to lengthy pre-departure applications for countries such as India.
He also hopes to develop secure information systems, with both military and civilian applications, for countries with emerging economies, like Pakistan.
These include a complicated application process for countries to undertake, a limited list of eligible medicines, restrictions on NGOs as eligible importers, requirements to declare a national emergency and restrictions that prevent re-exportation to facilitate bulk procurement.
While this technique has had widespread international use in the developed world, its application for developing countries has not yet been established.
I had to make patent applications for 15 countries, and the standard fee for a patent signature was $1," says Goodfellow.
According to an index compiled annually by Henley & Partners, a law firm, natives of Kabul, Baghdad and Mogadishu are required to fill in visa applications for more countries than anyone else.
The company claimed that the rice-manufactured proteins could be taken orally to combat diarrhea and anemia, a potentially important application for less-developed countries.
For further meaningful comparisons, future analyses should consider weighting the patent applications for each country based on the population of the country.
Increased transparency of medicine prices can have a positive impact on the application of such strategies for countries that have not reached their full potential in achieving appropriate prices and fully efficient procurement systems.
On December 2nd France's prime minister, François Fillon, suspended all non-household applications for his country's feed-in tariff scheme.
