Cross-border issues and the roles of non-health sectors in access to medicines in the region have not been explored widely.
Despite the importance of cross-border issues and the role of sectors beyond the health sector in facilitating or impeding ATM, scarce attention was devoted to those issues in the region.
As a result, partners could understand their roles in cross-border DM operations and had a good overview of what was expected from them and from the other partners.
Also, cross-border issues and other sectors' roles on access to medicines in the region have not been explored widely.
China's government remains deeply ambivalent about the redback's role in cross-border investment.
The officials also said the liaison office, located at the largely defunct resort of Diamond Mountain in the North, played a limited role in cross-border relations.
UNDERSTANDABLY, given the role that cross-border flows of capital played in East Asia's economic downfall, people have come to think of "financial liberalisation" as another way of saying "lifting capital controls".
On the other hand, such rapid change makes it hard to tell whether monopoly positions are being exploited, or whether a more competitive market would have produced more innovations.Competition authorities have also had to rethink their role in cross-border deals.
Thomas Mirow, director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which was set up at the end of the Cold War to help the former Communist countries develop market economies, said the crisis had forced a critical look at the effects of financial integration and the role of cross-border banks in the region.
However, this week has highlighted the role of cross-border co-operation with arrests being made in UK, Ireland and the US.
