Engaging Communities for Better Health Care Services
The India Economy Review 2011, January 2011

By George Cheriyan and Om Prakash Arya

It has been now two days, since seven year Ravi is down with fever. His mother, Sita, a poor landless labor's wife, must wind up her day's chores before she can attend to him. The fever is high and he badly needs medical assistance. But the nearest Primary Health Centre (PHC) at Barbaas is 23 Kilometers from SitaramPura in Tadarsingh block in Tonk district of Rajasthan. She will have to spend three hundred rupees just to get there, but she doesn't have a choice. Sita and Ravi are unfortunately symbols of glossily deficient medical services in the world's largest democracy.  More...

History repeated itself at Cancun
The Economic Times, January 17, 2011

By Pradeep S Mehta

Global negotiations are not an easy task. For that matter, every negotiation requires maturity of understanding of what one party will give and what the other party is able to accept. In negotiations that involve many parties and contentious international issues such as trade or climate change, things become much more complex and need to be approached on an incremental basis.  More...

Stop road transport cartels, go competition
The Financial Express, India, January 10, 2011

By Pradeep S Mehta

Curbing cartels in the transport sector is also an opportunity that can work to the advantage of the competition authority. This is one of the best ways for the authority to endear itself to the general public as the decisions concerned will yield immediate results and these will be easy for all to see. More...

EA region needs effective competition policy
Business Daily Africa, January 05, 2011

By Samson Awino

The recent happenings in Kenya’s telecommunication sector have given the Tenth Parliament a new food for thought in the ongoing quest for a level playground. It is now widely appreciated in the country that competition benefits consumers through lower prices, better quality and improved choice of products, and indirectly, through its impact on economic growth. More...