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Korea’s Pricing Policy and Medical Tourism
May 26 by Cyrus ChowdhuryKorea’s metamorphosis from emerging to mature Korea has come a long way since the country moved to a single-payer system by merging hundreds of independent insurance societies. Reforms in...
Russia: Localisation vs. Isolation - Part Two
February 08 by Cyrus ChowdhuryPharma2020 – Towards Self-Reliance or the WTO? In late 2008, The Russian Federation’s Ministry of Industry and Trade announced the Pharma2020 strategy as part of the Healthcare Develo...
Russia: Localisation vs. Isolation - Part One
February 03 by Cyrus ChowdhuryThe Rise of Russia: Not Just a BRIC Anymore Five years ago, few pharmaceutical executives would have believed that 2011 would bring a feverish scramble to invest in Russia. At the time, many beli...
EU Price-Cut Pandemic: Managing with Discipline
July 01 by Cyrus ChowdhuryRecent weeks have revealed the immediate result of the European debt crisis: adoption of austerity measures, many of which prioritise an easy target, pharmaceutical expenditure. Governments tend...