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Searching with a thematic focus on WTO, Trade Policy in South Africa

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  The ability of select Sub-Saharan African Countries to utilise TRIPs flexibilities and competition law to ensure a sustainable supply of essential medicines: a study of producing and importing countries

  Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2006

  This paper examines the implementation of the WTO Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) flexibilities related to access to essential medicines. The report specifically looks at three countries: Kenya, Zambia and South Africa.
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  Down the plughole: why bringing water into WTO services negotiations would unleash a development disaster

  ActionAid International, 2005

  Poor countries are under intense pressure in the World Trade Organization's GATS negotiations to open their service markets and "progressively liberalise" key sectors – such as water delivery – to foreign corporations.
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  Growth and opportunity (African civil society perspectives on growth and opportunity)

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This paper captures perspectives of development activists in civil society and social movements in Africa.
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  TRIPS, pharmaceutical patents, and access to essential medicines: a long way from Seattle to Doha

  Médecins Sans Frontières, 2003

  Public health advocates welcomed the Doha Declaration as an important achievement because it gave primacy to public health over private intellectual property, and clarified World Trade Organization (WTO) Members' rights to use trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS) safeguards.
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  Unlimited companies: the developmental impacts of an investment agreement at the WTO

  ActionAid International, 2003

  This paper presents Actionaids response to the issues surroundings the Cancun Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), to be held in September 2003.ActionAid is concerned that an investment agreement negotiated at the WTO could inflict lasting damage on the livelihoods of poor people in developing countries.

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