Education

The large portion of the national budget devoted each year to education highlights the value Ghana places on learning and human development. The Ministry of Education (MoE) is the largest recipient of state funding, and the proportion of government money allocated to the sector has only risen in recent years.

Over the past decade, the Ghanaian health care system has undergone significant reforms aimed at improving the provision of services and infrastructure, especially in rural areas. Results including the introduction of a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) have been largely positive, in part due to a shift to more preventive health care. This,...

Three years into a second decade of planned reforms, the Thai educational system is facing a growing public crisis of confidence as the Ministry of Education’s (MoE) performance is outpaced by a rapidly evolving economy. Compounded by six years of domestic political instability and a global economic crisis, public debate rages on the nation’s...

Valued at BT129bn ($4.11bn) in 2011 by the Board of Investment (BOI), Thailand’s pharmaceuticals industry continue to ride high on growing domestic and export demand. These prospects are expected to push market value to BT225bn ($7.18bn) by 2019, in which time Thailand’s own Government Pharmaceutical Organisation (GPO) is hoping to tap into the 2015...

Investment in Thailand’s health care services over the last 40 years have created an internationally lauded system and a paragon for lower- and middle-income economies. Yet as the nation’s economy has prospered, Thailand is facing a growing occurrence of chronic, non-communicable diseases among its ageing adult population, leading to a trend in...