Articles by Imrana Qadeer

This set of bibliographies have made a valuable contribution by putting together published and unpublished studies on important subjects relating to women’s morbidity, especially so for research scholars who are looking for literature on women’s morbidity.

Much of the debate on privatisation of health care has been based on the assumption that the private sector provides a better quality of services than the public sector. Efforts are on to restructure public institutions on market principles to promote efficiency. However, a recent report on Delhi's private hospitals is a shocking reveletion of their questionable management practices with regard to workers as well as patient care.

was able to impose the American will. However, the relative American economic decline and particularly its recent conversion into a debtor have eroded this American capacity. Black Monday and American paralysis in the face of it threaten to erode it even more. Yet the United States is becoming increasingly unilateralist, not to mention protectionist, and threatens international economic agreements for which its trading partners already have less than total enthusiasm even among themselves. Americans have been exporting the costs of their own economic irresponsibility. How can the Japanese and west Europeans be expected to expose their economies to the ravages that a real deflation of the American (or indeed their own) bubble will impose 6n them

A Note on Draft Plan on Rural Health Services Imrana Qadeer The contents of the Draft Plan on Rural Health Services make it obvious that the present government's health policy, like that of its predecessor, makes a lot of correct noises but spares very little effort to find out why similar ideas in the past could never actually materialise.