Multilateral models recognize that countries are the only ones truly dealing directly with their health challenges and are in the best position to determine the day-to-day needs and realities on the ground, with external actors providing funding, resources, technical, and other guidance.
Through its unique multilateral funding model, UNITAID leveraged $63 million in funds that will enable a tenfold increase in treatment for children across nine countries.
Washington insists that any talks be within a multilateral framework.
This framework overcomes the locality of pure ad hoc networks and supports efficiently multilateral negotiation models in pervasive computing environments.
To address this issue, we model multilateral negotiations as a mechanism design problem with voluntary participation.
This will be Mr. Obama's last appearance at the United Nations, and his aides said he would use it to recall his diplomatic achievements and argue that his multilateral approach is a model for dealing with future crises.
By thrusting France so far out front, he has allowed Mr. Obama to claim credibly that Libya is now a model of multilateral cooperation, not merely the third Muslim country the United States has gone to war with in the last decade.
Most people in the global health community expected President Barack Obama to demonstrate leadership in scaling-up the response to the AIDS and TB epidemics, especially through the Global Fund as a model of multilateral cooperation.
But whatever the motive behind the offers — benevolence, wanting to bolster Western-style governance or help Western businesses expand — the traditional model used by multilateral lenders looks increasingly unsuitable for the region and difficult to implement, analysts say.
Mexico, which sends almost 80% of its exports to the United States, shares America's desire for more open goods markets and, as a member of the TPP club, is likely to consider the rules expected to come out of those negotiations to be a model for any multilateral trading system.
