</titre> Medical tourism is seen as a recent concept and is mainly seen as plastic surgery in developing countries. However, medical tourism refers to patients taking advantage of medical services abroad in an environment different from that of their everyday lives. Several factors have led to this...

</titre> In this paper, we study the consequences of the absence of a precise definition of the notion of developing countries in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Negotiations engaged since 2001 in the Doha round cannot, in our opinion, find a way other than taking into account the heterogeneity of...

</titre> <alinea/> Humanitarian NGOs which help developing countries are usually assessed by their funders, not their beneficiaries. Such a system brings several conflicts of interest : 1) it needs to be approved by those who are evaluated and so does not deal with ?bad eggs? that refuse to be investigated ;...

This paper tests for the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth among some developing countries distributed between three geographic areas, over the period 1990-2005. Our results are derived from the 3SLS estimator. Our main findings show that FDIs do...

The formation of the innovation potential of multinational firms in life science industries is so costly that the appropriation of the inventions stemming from it and of the resources it includes is fundamental. This explains the extension and the strengthening of intellectual property rights...

The economic analysis of the links between institutions and development is crucial with regard to the challenges linked to the health situation and the conditions of the access to health services of populations in disadvantaged countries. Besides the insufficiency of the aid for development,...

Historically, microfinance has been successful in reaching the population excluded from the classical financial system. In the 90?s, efforts have been concentrated towards financial and institutional sustainability of the microfinance institutions (MFIs). Tools to evaluate financial performances...

This article reviews, on the basis of observation made between 1994 and 2004 during eight reforms in developing countries, a series of ten factors which significantly have affected the success of the projects of reforms. The success of a reform, according to the author, counts on factors of...

The aim of this article consists in measuring in which way health policies in developing countries are contributing to sustainable development goals. Firstly, a return on the terminology and the abstract contents of the sustainable development allows us to identify it with the cumulative and...

The health of the population represents one of the main objectives of the development. Even if the sanitary conditions have globally improved, it is still a concern in several developing countries of Sub-saharan Africa. The infant mortality and the death rate during birth, the high presence of...