Hints and tips:
...Pfizer has invited other pharmaceutical companies to join the initiative, which is partly funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and asked governments, global health authorities and philanthropists...
...Then it planned one for Vectura, the inhaler business at the centre of a bidding war between private equity group Carlyle and Philip Morris International, the maker of Marlboro cigarettes....
...The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for instance, which focuses on poverty, disease and inequity, has given $54.8bn to charitable causes since 1994....
...– Harvey Morris Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss and Hope in China by Karoline Kan, Hachette, $27 An engaging memoir about growing up in China from a young Chinese journalist....
...Friedman, a former adviser to Lazard and CFO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, could be accused of having dragged his heels on costs during his four years at the helm....
...(FT, Chicago Tribune) Stubbing out smoking Philip Morris pledged $1bn to tackle tobacco smoking by funding the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World....
...News round up Addicted to finding new smokers Tobacco companies have been taking on regulators in several African countries and Philip Morris has been campaigning against the global anti-smoking treaty...
...Mook was eventually persuaded to change his mind, with others arguing that lobbying for a foreign government was in some cases no worse than lobbying for a controversial US corporation, such as Philip Morris...
...Philip Morris International, the world’s largest seller of cigarettes outside of China, is suing Uruguay over claims that its tobacco-control measures violated a trade agreement with Switzerland, where PMI...
...These include organisations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Global Fund To Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the Gavi Alliance, which supports immunisation for children in poor countries...
...Ian Morris had a wonderful book on long-term civilisational history out last year, Why the West Rules – For Now. Stanford University has a superb project comparing ancient Rome and Han China....
...The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as donor governments, are contributing to a fund that provides finance for infrastructure, better water management and access to improved seeds and technology...
...The Carso Health Institute – Latin America’s answer to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – operates from calm and stylish offices set in gardens facing a colonial-era mansion....
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