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Eliminating world poverty : making governance work for the poor. White Paper on international development

DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (DFID)
2006

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This is DFID's White Paper on eliminating world poverty. It sees good governance, at both national and international level, as key to the success of development policies and poverty alleviation. The paper commits the UK government over the next five years to support the poorest countries, increasing the development budget to 0.7%; to help build transparent and democratic government; to improve security, incomes and public services; to facilitate international cooperation to tackle climate change; to help reform the international system

The influence of the pharmaceutical industry

HOUSE OF COMMONS SELECT COMMITTEE ON HEALTH
April 2005

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This is the fourth report of session 2004-2005 and includes both the report and formal minutes. The committee considered increasing sale in the UK of patent and proprietary remedies and appliances and medicated wines, noting that while some were genuine scientific preparations, other were "unobjectionable remedies for simple ailments" and others still were "secret remedies making grossly exaggerated claims of efficacy"

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