[Correspondence] CONACYT's freeze on postgraduate fellowships in Mexico

Although Mexico's investment in research and development is low —around 0·5% of the gross domestic product is spent on this area compared with 2–4% in countries such as the USA, South Korea, the UK, Finland, and Japan (appendix)—CONACYT, the only state agency that funds research, has officially frozen the number of postgraduate fellowships available.1

Source: LANCET - June 16, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Interinstitutional group of Mexican postgraduate students Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research