- Recommendations to stop the negative impact of high cost medicines on poor countries
- Oxfam, 2001
- This briefing paper shows how new global patent rules, introduced by the World Trade Organisation, will raise the costs of vital medicines, with potentially disastrous implications for poor countries. This paper makes recommendations ...
- The importance of intellectual property protection for the pharmaceutical industry
- International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations, 2000
- Paper asserts that for the pharmaceutical industry to invest the billions of dollars, Euros, yen, etc. in these highly risky health care solutions, intellectual property protection is essential. However, patent and trade-mark protecti...
- Who is encouraging the privatisation of public healthcare systems?
- D. Hall / Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2001
- The paper discusses the effects that globalisation and privatisation may have on public health care systems. Threats to public health care include: the WTO provides two kinds of threat to health services. The first is t...
- Improving access to medicines
- International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations, 2000
- When problems of access to novel or even older treatments are discussed, many reasons are cited – including financial, infrastructure, and cost factors. Conclusion: It is clear that price plays a less important role than i...
- Why is there a diplomatic deadlock between members of developing countries and industrial economies in the area
- M. Shafaeddin / United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2000
- The article draws attention to the deadlock in the negotiations during the recent meetings of WTO, which has has demonstrated the severe differences among various groups of member countries. This paper focuses on frictions between dev...
- Why List wanted selective rather than comprehensive protection of infant industries
- M. Shafaeddin / United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2000
- The purpose of this study is to clarify some confusion surrounding the infant industry argument presented by Frederick List. The article finds that List: recommended selective, rather than across-the-board, prote...
- How can governments deal with global and systemic instability?: progress since the East Asian crisis
- Y. Akyüz / United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2000
- This paper briefly surveys the progress made in various areas of reform of the international financial architecture since the outbreak of the East Asian crisis, and explains the principal technical and political obstacles encountered ...
- Copyright: essential in creating a viable music industry in developing countries
- B. Andersen; Z. Kozul-Wright; R. Kozul-Wright / United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2000
- Paper analyses the relationship between the copyright and income generation in the audio-visual sector, in particular music. It focuses on the role of the copyright and related "neighbouring" rights in providing a meaningful and impor...
- Intellectual property needs and expectations of traditional knowledge holders
- World Intellectual Property Organization, 2000
- This Report presents information compiled by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) from nine fact-finding missions on the intellectual property (IP) needs and expectations of holders of traditional knowledge (TK). ...
- Academic and policy discussion overstates the case for trade openness
- F Rodriguez; D. Rodrik / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1999
- Do countries with lower policy-induced barriers to international trade grow faster once other relevant country characteristics are controlled for? This paper examines part of the large body of emprical evidence suggesting this is the ...
- The GATS Agreement on Financial Services - A Modest Start to Multilateral Liberalization
- Piritta Sorsa / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- This paper analyzes the links between multilateral and unilateral financial sector liberalization. The rules in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and related negotiations in financial services in 1995 were a first atte...
- Trade and Investment Interface
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999
- This note was prepared in response to the request by the Working Party of the Trade Committee for follow - up to key questions arising from an earlier Secretariat note on the treatment of investment in the Uruguay Round. It attempts t...
- Investment and the Final Act of the Uruguay Round: A Preliminary Stocktaking
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999
- This paper aims to provide a preliminary stocktaking of the outcome of the Uruguay Round with regard to the treatment of investment. Doing so is difficult for a number of reasons, not least of which is the fact that investment per se ...
- The International Contestability of Markets -- Economic perspectives: Issues Paper
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999
- For a number of years analytical work and discussions have taken place in the Trade Committee and in various other fora on the “new” dimensions of market access arising in world of deepening economic integration. This work h...
- Agriculture and the policy environment: Zambia and Zimbabwe: political dreams and policy nightmares
- Doris J. Jansen; Andrew Rukovo / OECD Development Centre, 1992
- The paper examines the effect of differing policies in the post-independence period on the agricultural and overall economic performance of Zambia and Zimbabwe. It focuses on the interaction between macroeconomic and agricultural poli...
- Building China's Information Technology Industry: Tariff Policy and China's Accession to the WTO
- M. Borrus; S.S. Cohen / Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, 1997
- A major issue that remains open both with respect to China's participation in the ITA and its accession to the WTO is the speed of tariff liberalization that China will commit to in these negotiations. We argue in this paper that, at ...
- A Dynamic Simulation Model of Tourism and Environment in the Yucatan Peninsula [Mexico]
- P. Kandelaars / International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 1997
- Tourism in the Yucatan peninsula has been and is still growing, which may lead to conflicts between tourism and the environment, population and other economic sectors. A dynamic simulation model ahs been developed to understand the dy...
- The TRIPs Agreement: A Guide for the South: The Uruguay Round Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights
- South Centre, 1997
- This document aims to contribute to an understanding of the factors that prompted the proposals for the TRIPs Agreement, to outline certain aspects of the Agreement thought to be particularly important for developing countries, and to...
- General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)
- World Trade Organization, 1999
- Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement)
- World Trade Organization, 1999
- The TRIPS Agreement, which came into effect on 1 January 1995, is to date the most comprehensive multilateral agreement on intellectual property. The areas of intellectual property that it covers are: copyright and related rights (i.e...
- Department of Economics, Strathclyde University
- University department. Research interests in the Department are wide-ranging, with particular emphasis on Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Regional Economics and Energy Economics.
- BRICS Information Centre
- Based at the University of Toronto, Canada, the BRICS Information Centre aims is to serve as a leading independent source of information and analysis on the BRICS interaction and institutions. Documentation from the BRICS and research and reports will be published on this website as they become available. Together with international partners from the BRICS countries, the BRICS Informati...
- BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS
- The BRICS Policy Center (BPC) / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS is a joint initiative of the City of Rio de Janeiro and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). The Center is dedicated to the study of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and other middle powers, and it is administered by the Institute of International Relations...
- Global Economic Governance Africa (GEGAfrica)
- The aims of the GEGAfrica project are to undertake and promote research driven by African needs, to advise policymakers, and stimulate and inform public and media interest on global economic governance. It is a joint initiative of the International Development Law Unit at the University of Pretoria and the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA). The Global Economic Go...
- Secretaría General Iberoamericana (SEGIB)
- SEGIB is an Inter-governmental organisation for the provision of institutional and technical support to the Iberoamerican Conference and the Iberoamerican Summit Meeting of Heads of State and Heads of Government. SEGIB has member countries in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula - Spain, Portugal and Andorra.
- International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)
- The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) is a non-profit business organisation created in June 1999 to establish a functional international framework for trading in greenhouse gas emission reductions.
- IDH Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH)
- IDH accelerates and upscales sustainable trade by building impact oriented coalitions of front running multinationals, civil society organisations, governments and other stakeholders. Through convening public and private interests, strengths and knowledge, IDH programs help make sustainability the new norm and deliver impact on Millennium Development Goals 1, 7 and 8.
- Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE)
- The SIRE aims to: develop and sustain a reputation for internationally excellent research in major fields of economics, building around and beyond existing strengths, enabling economics in Scotland to compete effectively in the global academic market place attract high quality graduate students to Scotland, consolidating and enhancing the growing success of...
- United Nations Development Policy and Analysis Division (DPAD)
- The development policy and analysis division (DPAD) is the main development research division of the United Nations secretariat.
- Anti-Corruption Research Network (ACRN)
- The Anti-Corruption Research Network (ACRN) is an online platform and the global meeting point for a research community that spans a wide range of disciplines and institutions. ACRN is a podium to present innovative findings and approaches in corruption / anti-corruption research, a sounding board to bounce off ideas and questions, a marketplace to announce jobs, events, courses and funding. The p...
