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- Title
High prices of supplies drain cash from poorer nations' labs.
- Authors
Schillinger, Eva
- Abstract
While researchers in the West bemoan budget cuts and funding constraints, their colleagues outside this wealthy enclave are struggling to pay frequently inflated prices for lab equipment and materials Scientists in these poorer countries have to pay up to 70 percent more than their wealthier colleagues for identical supplies, a survey by the periodical "Nature" has revealed. Suppliers point out that they do not have control of prices in individual countries, which are set by local distributors. The discrepancies are explained by market conditions, the suppliers note in particular, the higher costs of doing business in smaller, less-established markets.
- Subjects
LABORATORY equipment &; supplies; SUPPLY chains; MANUFACTURERS' agents; SURVEYS; PERIODICALS; SCIENTISTS; DISTRIBUTORS (Commerce)
- Publication
Nature, 2004, Vol 428, Issue 6982, p453
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/428453a