At the onset of the MDG period, a High-Level Panel on Financing for Development foresaw the shortfall in the capacity of developing countries to mobilise domestic resources required to meet the MDG targets and recommended that the cost of financing the MDGs be shared by rich and poor countries.
Strengthening the research capacity of developing countries is essential to reduce inequities in health, but requires the development of institutional and regulatory frameworks, infrastructure, investment, and a sufficient number of skilled people to conduct and publish research [ 2, 4].
The new system will work to build the capacity of developing countries to track stolen money going overseas and to emphasize ways that financial centers can better detect and deter money laundering.
Moreover, the administrative capacity of developing countries (even in upper-middle income group) lags behind the capacity of developed countries, which is likely to worsen the efficiency properties of the UI program.
ICSU works on activities such as building the scientific capacity of developing countries, assuring open access to scientific data, creating new international, interdisciplinary research programmes (most notably in the realm of global environmental change), and serving as a 'voice for science' at conferences and summits of the United Nations and other international policy bodies.
The IPR-as-a-catalyst approach prefers the IPR regime to remain as the status quo and that the climate change regime construct an enabling environment by lowering the transaction costs of technology transfer and enhancing the regulatory capacity of developing countries.
With increasing focus on improving the capacity of developing countries to undertake research for health, the establishment of IRBs for ethical research has been given priority (42).
