This document discusses challenges in budgeting and negotiating investigator grants for global clinical trials in countries that are difficult to work with. It asks questions about central budgeting, outsourcing negotiations, gathering market intelligence, ensuring fair market value, dealing with differing regulatory timelines, and whether lower costs outweigh longer start-up times. The document is from a meeting in Philadelphia on January 10, 2012 discussing investigator grants in countries like Poland, Brazil, Russia, Argentina, China, India, and Japan.