Intellectual property rights
- Turning high prices into an opportunity: what is needed?
- A.L. Constantin / WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2008
- Over the past two years commodity prices have risen unexpectedly. This paper argues that high prices are likely to remain high and volatile. To some extent, this is a development opportunity as it mig...
- Patents: taken for granted in plans for a global biofuels market
- S. Suppan / WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2007
- Understanding patent policy is crucial for predicting how the biofuels technologies can aid or hinder sustainable development. This article examines the influence that patents will have on the biof...
- From Uruguay to Doha: agricultural trade negotiations at the World Trade Organization
- T. C. Beierle / WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2002
- This discussion paper examines current agricultural trade negotiations at the World Trade Organization, with particular attention to the relationship between liberalization and developing countries’ e...
- Extending special and differential treatment (SDT) in agriculture for developing countries
- C. Stevens / WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2002
- The argument put forward in this paper is that the instruments to give effect to special and differential treatment (SDT) are in a state of flux (because of changes in national and multilateral trade ...
- Concentrated market power and agricultural trade
- S. Murphy / WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2006
- Much of the discussion of competition policy reflects a preoccupation with protecting consumers against the power of organised production. However, this paper argues that in agriculture, the dominance...
- Radio Cancun
- WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2003
- This IATP website presents Radio Cancún, an online radio station broadcasting news and events regarding the World Trade Organizations fifth ministerial conference in Cancún, Mexico, Sept. 10-14. You ...
- World Trade Organization: Fifth Ministerial, Cancun, Mexico
- WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2003
- This pamphlet introduces major issues on the agenda at the Cancún WTO ministerial conference. In addition to background on current WTO debates, this pamphlet offers a set of recommendation to address ...
- U.S. dumping on world agricultural markets: can trade rules help farmers?
- M. Ritchie; S. Murphy; A. B. Lake / WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2003
- Dumping, the practice of selling products at prices far below their production costs, is a serious distortion for developing countries’ markets, because it threatens their food security, rural livelih...
- Managing the invisible hand
- S. Murphy / WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2002
- Agriculture and trade are important development tools. However, trade liberalisation does not necessarily fulfil the developmental objectives that should be at the basis of WTO and most of the multila...
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