For and against points for poorer countries benefit from science
- Present a broad interpretation of ‘poorer’.
- Present a broad interpretation of ‘scientific’ to embrace technology/medicine etc.
- the extent to which difficulties posed by pricing are insurmountable/avoidable, eg, declining prices; increasing affordability of new technologies; pricing of medicines may be slower to decline
- ways in which companies/countries might not see it in their financial/political interests for poorer countries to profit
- the problem of the ‘brain drain’ of talented scientists being attracted to richer countries for study, practice and research
- the main beneficiaries actually are within a country – the state/individuals/particular groups
- Poor countries may have other urgencies