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  Who owns the knowledge economy?: political organising behind TRIPS

  The Corner House, UK, 2004

  This briefing paper explores the background to TRIPS and the corporate political organising that orchestrated and paved the way for the agreement.
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  Strengthening intellectual property rights globally: impact on India’s pharmaceutical exports

  Gujarat Institute of Development Research, India, 2004

  The emergence of a global intellectual property protection regime based on the trade-related intellectual property rights (TRIPS) agreement is intuitively likely to be good for the exports of developed countries which create new technologies, but not for those middle-income developing countries whose industries rely on the imitation of technologies.However, although empirical research has been
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  Poor people’s knowledge: promoting intellectual property in developing countries

  World Bank, 2004

  This book deals with Intellectual Property rights (IPRs) and the potential for poor people to improve their earnings from their knowledge and skills.
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  Implementation of the WTO General Council Decision on Paragraph 6 of the DOHA Declaration on the Trips Agreement and Public Health

  World Health Organization, 2004

  This report from the World Health Organization (WHO) explains the compulsory licensing system through which developing countries can acquire cheap generic medicines to protect public health without breaking international trade laws.This system was established by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2003, in compliance with the 2001 Doha Declaration on the TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intell
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  Expanding intellectual property's empire: the role of FTAs

  GRAIN, 2003

  This paper explores the origins of the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), and the continuous expansion of intellectual property rights facilitated by the trade regime.
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  The pharmaceutical industry as a political player

  The Lancet, 2002

  This article from the Lancet outlines how current regulatory systems are not sufficiently robust in their political relations with the pharmaceutical industry, and makes recommendations on how to address this.
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  Utilizing TRIPS flexibilities for public health protection through South-South regional frameworks

  South Centre, 2004

  This study from the South Centre outlines how regional co-operation provides a potential solution to the problems posed to the health systems of developing countries by the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) agreement.The Doha Declaration of 2001 established a degree of flexibility in the application of the TRIPS patenting laws to medicine.
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  Biodiversity for food security (benefit sharing)

  Syngenta Foundation, 2004

  This publication offers a collection of presentations from the symposium "Food Security and Biodiversity: Sharing the Benefit of Plant Genetic Resources" jointly organised by SDC and the Syngenta Foundation to mark World Food Day 2004.
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  Integrating African perspectives and priorities into genetic resource regulations: a resource guide for policymakers

  World Conservation Union, 2004

  This paper focuses on African genetic resources, that, the paper argues, can make a decisive contribution to sustainable development in the region.However, the paper states that genetic resources will only provide maximum benefit when they are regulated, managed, conserved, and utilised within a sound supporting domestic and international policy framework.In this context, a brief reference g
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  Breakthrough for "the South"?: an analysis of the recognition of farmers' rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2004

  This paper looks at the influence of developing countries on international environmental negotiations, specifically at the negotiations around the 7 years of negotiation around the recent International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA).

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