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  Agricultural policies in OECD countries: monitoring and evaluation 2002

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2002

  Agricultural trade policy is at the centre of debate. The WTO is now re-negotiating the Agreement of Agriculture (AoA), while the European Union is working at the reform of the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) which should be implemented by 2006.
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  The Doha agenda and intellectual property rights

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2002

  This paper reviews the possible outcomes of declarations made at the WTO Ministerial in Doha concerning the TRIPS agreement.
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  Can 'the spirit of Doha' be kept alive?

  SciDev.Net, 2003

  Background and commentary from SciDev.Net on the circumstances leading up to the failure of the TRIPS Council to reach agreement on access to generic drugs for developing countries by the deadline set in the "Doha Declaration".Dickson places the blame for this failure firmly in the hands of the pharmaceutical industry who sought sharp restrictions based on the scope of diseases covered and the
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  The FTAA, access to HIV/AIDS treatment, and human rights

  Human Rights Watch, 2002

  This briefing paper begins by giving an outline of the WTO’s Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Agreement (TRIPS) and of the Doha declaration by WTO members, which states that countries can bypass patents in medical emergencies.The paper argues that countries in the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) should resist pressure from the Office of the United States Trade Representativ
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  Doha, is it really a development round?

  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002

  This paper questions the validity of the Doha round as a serious aid to international development issues - specifically provisions to less developed countries.The geoploitical realities of 9/11 meant that developing countries were not in such a strong position to pursue a positive pro active agenda for trade and development .
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  Amended patents act and access to medicines after Doha

  International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2002

  This article examines the ammended India Patents Act which passed into law shortly after the Doha declaration on TRIPS and access to medicines.
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  Issues linked to Convention on Biological Diversity in the WTO negotiations implementing Doha mandates.

  Center for International Environmental Law, 2002

  This document analyses the content of TRIPS and CBD related mandates contained in the Ministerial texts approved at Doha. It aims at providing developing countries with suggestions for common action in the relevant WTO bodies.
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  Anthrax, Drug Transnationals, and TRIPs

  Foreign Policy in Focus, 2002

  Opinion piece from the Director of the Public Interest Research Centre in India which looks at TRIPS and the Doha declaration and draws inferences from the recent anthrax crisis in the US.Among the points the author makes are that:By sacrificing the public health concern of its own citizens to protect the private interests of drug TNCs, the U.S.
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  From Uruguay to Doha: agricultural trade negotiations at the World Trade Organization

  WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2002

  This discussion paper examines current agricultural trade negotiations at the World Trade Organization, with particular attention to the relationship between liberalization and developing countries’ economic growth and food security.Agriculture remains one of the most highly protected arenas of international trade and that the cost of such protection falls particularly hard on developing countr
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  WTO TRIPS agreement and its implications for access to medicines in developing countries

  Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, 2002

  This detailed issue briefing examines TRIPS in light of the Doha Declaration which mandates that TRIPS be interpreted in a manner that supports public health interests and promotes access to medicines.The study accepts the consensus of experts that developing countries should make use of policy options such as compulsory licensing and parallel importation to increase the supply of low-price med

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