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    Building capacity to trade: what are the priorities?

    Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2002
    This paper questions the meaning of the Doha Declaration when it stresses the “important role” of “well targeted, sustainably financed technical assistance and capacity-building programmes". It questions the purpose of “trade capacity building” (TCB) and asks who should provide this assistance and how?
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    Whose development agenda?: a preliminary analysis of the 109 EU GATS requests

    World Development Movement, 2003
    The full 109 liberalisation requests made by the EU to the WTO in June 2002 were previously inaccessible to the public but have just been leaked. It is now possible to find out which countries the EU are targeting and which sectors and assess these intentions against the rhetoric of the EU.
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    The future of IPRs in the multilateral trading system: responding to council for TRIPs activities, the Doha development agenda, and the evolving WTO jurisprudence on TRIPs

    IPRsonline, 2002
    This note was published as a background document to the “Towards development-oriented IP policy: Setting an agenda for the next five years” Conference in November 2002.
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    Post-Doha African challenges in the Sanitary and Phytosanitary and Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreement

    Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2002
    Africa's capacity to negotiate at the international level within organisations like the WTO has been greatly improved since Uruguay.
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    How important are market access issues for developing countries in the Doha agenda?

    Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2002
    The aim of this paper is that of going "back to basics", focusing on the importance of market access issues for developing countries in the WTO negotiations begun in Doha in 2001.The paper attempts to address the following questions:will developing countries gain from further reducing their applied rates in agriculture?Would be in their interest adding industrial goods among the sec
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    Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and public health

    World Trade Organization, 2001
    This document presents the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) and public health, which were agreed upon at the Fourth Session of the WTO Ministerial Conference in Doha in November 2001.The need for the TRIPS Agreement to be part of the wider national and international action to address public health problems, such as HIV/AIDS, in developing
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    Implications of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and public health

    Essential Drugs and Medicine Policy, WHO, 2002
    The special declaration on issues relating to the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) represents an unprecedented step for the World Trade Organisation (WTO), but what are its implications?
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    Health (and IPRs)

    Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, 2002
    It is feared that stronger patent protection is likely to increase the costs of medicines and reduce the ability of the poorest developing countries to improve public health conditions among their populations. Yet for pharmaceutical companies, patent protection gives them incentives to conduct research and development into new drugs.
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    Implementation of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS agreement and public health: technical assistance - how to get it right

    Médecins Sans Frontières, 2002
    The 2001 Doha Declaration on the TRIPS agreement and public health was a critical step towards enabling developing countries to establish intellectual property rights systems compatible with their public health priorities.
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    Food and trade: the WTO development challenge

    Canadian Council for International Co-operation, 2002
    In 1994 WTO members introduce agriculture into the multilateral trade negotiations in order to foster free trade in agricultural products and eliminate three types of trade barriers, such as domestic support, market access and export competition.

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