There has been very little qualitative analysis of the motivation of mothers and other household decision-makers in poor countries for delivering at home.
India, Nigeria and many others are also arguing that if the United States can cede special trading rights to Pakistan's textile and apparel makers to help a frontline ally, it should ease barriers for clothing makers in all poor countries.
Ranking on the basis of index scores might encourage policy makers in relatively poor performing regions to give the issue of child poverty greater emphasis.
For researchers, health workers and policy makers in resource-poor settings, therefore, attempts to measure mortality have to be implemented from first principles.
Despite these limitations, the study has provided information that should greatly assist regional health-policy makers, in rich and poor countries alike, in allocating fixed health budgets between interventions and between health sectors in order to maximize health in society.
Healy says regulation could help the category in the long-run by reining in makers of poor-quality products.
Kai Oistamo of Nokia, the world's largest handset-maker, notes that people in poor countries have to spend a far larger proportion of their income than those in the rich world to buy even the cheapest handset.
Extrapolated to the population, this equates to about two and a half million Australians suffering very high dental fear and reconfirms the scope of the problem facing dentists and policy makers in improving the generally poor oral health of, and symptom-oriented treatment received by, these people.
This new approach may benefit policy makers as well as scholars and firms in poor countries.
Companies can choose to slash prices or license their drugs to generic manufacturers for sale in poor countries; most AIDS drug makers have done some of this.
There is a huge gulf between what policy makers think should happen and the consequences of their actions for police officers in poor areas.
