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  The concept of essential medicines: lessons for rich countries

  British Medical Journal, 2004

  This British Medical Journal article explores how industrialised countries could benefit from using the essential medicines list, currently used by developing countries. The article outlines how the response of most industrialised countries to increasing costs of medicines and demands for quality health care by ageing populations is fragmented.
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  Strategic intellectual property rights policy and north-south technology transfer

  Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, 2005

  This paper joins the debate on whether weak or strong protection for intellectual property in developing countries better promotes development. It gives an analysis of the welfare implications of protecting intellectual property rights (IPRs) within the framework of the WTO TRIPS agreement.
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  What is biopiracy?

  Institute of Education, University of London, 2004

  This paper seeks to shed some light on the meaning of the term “biopiracy” and to consider what should be done about it, bearing in mind that agreement on what is and isn’t biopiracy, and how much of it there actually is, is lacking. The fact that patent claims in various countries may incorporate biological and genetic material within their scope combined with the belief - held by many develop
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  Free trade agreement between the USA and Thailand threatens access to HIV/AIDS treatment

  Oxfam, 2004

  This Oxfam briefing note outlines how the future of Thailand’s HIV/AIDS treatment programmes could be threatened by new intellectual property (IP) standards in a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States. The article outlines how the Thai treatment programmes lack important medicines to scale up. These patented medicines are too expensive for wide scale distribution.
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  Intellectual property protection and biotechnology: issues and processes for African consensus

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This paper addresses the impact of IPR on biotechnology development and utilisation in Africa.
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  Slow motion robbery: how the WTO is shrinking options for developing states

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Developing countries are being shackled by regulations formulated and enforced by international organisations. Policies to nurture domestic industry, which were used in Europe, north America and more recently the successful East Asian ‘tiger’ economies, are becoming illegal.
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  Supporting local knowledge and protecting resources

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Community agricultural knowledge is considerable and is often overlooked by policy-makers. Better understanding and documentation is needed of how local knowledge affects community decision-making in the management of natural resources.
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  Accessing agricultural information online: filling in the gaps

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Websites providing development-oriented information services for the agricultural sector are multiplying. This information growth, enabled by donor funding has not necessarily made it easier for users in developing countries to find and access relevant information. Many gaps and inconsistencies exist and much of the information available is not responsive to the demands of service users.
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  Biotechnology politics in Delhi’s corridors of power

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Liberalisation in India relaxed several restrictions on the activities of foreign firms that operate locally. Consequently, an increasing number of multinational agricultural biotechnology companies set up operations in India. New Delhi’s biotechnology policy is now influenced by a small number of major foreign firms and local entrepreneurs with national and global connections.
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  Terminator technology: the economic benefits of sterile seeds

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Terminator technology – the emerging technology for inducing sterility in seeds – is potentially detrimental to both biodiversity and the livelihoods of poor farmers forced to buy fresh seed every year. Repeat seed purchase, however, provides greater scope for companies to capture returns on their research investments in plant breeding.

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