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    Export diversification in low-income countries: an international challenge after Doha

    OECD Development Centre, 2003
    This paper discusses major policy issues related to commodity dependence and export diversification in low-income countries.
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    Breaking the WTO logjam: towards enforceable special and differential treatment

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Should developing countries adopt the same trade rules as developed states – or should they be given Special and Differential Treatment (SDT)? Are existing SDT mechanisms out of synchronisation with emerging rules of trade policy? How can researchers assist the incorporation of achievable SDT regimes within the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) rule-making process?
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    Global economic prospects 2004: realising the development promise of the Doha agenda

    Prospects for Development [World Bank], 2003
    This report presents a detailed overview of the world economy, and the near-term outlook. It also analyses central elements of the Doha Agenda that are important to developing countries.The overview of the world economy projects anaemic growth of 1.5 percent in 2003 in the industrialised world. It foresees better performance next year, as industrial countries' growth rises to 2.5 percent.
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    Multilateral Environmental Agreements and the WTO

    Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2003
    This paper demonstrates that almost 30 Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) incorporate trade measures, regulating or restraining the trade in particular substances or products, either between parties to the treaty and/or between parties and non-parties.
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    US producers reap cotton subsidies and destroy African livelihoods

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Massive US cotton subsidies are encouraging over-production and export dumping and driving down world cotton prices. What are the consequences for producers in developing countries? Are US subsidies illegal under WTO rules? If they are allowed to continue, will this put an end to hopes that agricultural exports could lift Africans out of poverty?
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    Intellectual property rights: food for the rich but poison for the poor?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Can rules concerning intellectual property rights (IPRs) benefit developing countries and reduce poverty? How should IPR rules and regimes cover access to genetic resources? Are the costs involved in patent litigation a necessary price to pay for the incentives offered by the patent system?
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    Implementation of paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and public health

    World Trade Organization, 2003
    Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration, which was agreed at the Fourth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial conference in Doha in 2001, recognised that countries with insufficient or no pharmaceutical manufacturing capacities could face difficulties in making effective use of compulsory licensing under the TRIPS Agreement.
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    The new “deal” on TRIPS and drugs: what does it mean for access to medicines?

    Third World Network, 2003
    The Doha Declaration had confirmed the right of developing countries to use compulsory licences to override patents on medicines to allow generic drug manufacturers to produce cheaper versions of patented medicines. However, Ministers at Doha couldn’t agree on how developing countries without domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity could effectively use compulsory licences.
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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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    Doha derailed: a progress report on TRIPS and access to medicines

    Médecins Sans Frontières, 2003
    Since Doha, some Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have attacked both the spirit and intent of the Doha Declaration, putting the interests of their pharmaceutical industries ahead of the health of the world’s poor.

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