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  What strategies are viable for developing countries today? The World Trade Organization and the shrinking of ‘development space’

  Development Studies Institute, LSE, 2003

  The paper argues that TRIMS and GATS limit the authority of developing country governments to constrain the choices of companies operating or hoping to operate in their territory, while TRIPS requires the governments to enforce rigorous property rights of foreign (generally Western) firms in the face of ‘theft’ by domestic firms.
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  The economics of generating and maintaining plant variety rights in China

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper empirically examines the pattern of plant variety protection (PVP) applications in China since its PVP laws were first introduced in 1997.
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  From TRIPS to RIPS: a better trade framework to support innovation in medical technologies

  Consumer Project on Technology - Health Care and Intellectual Property, 2003

  This paper looks at the impacts of multilateral and bilateral trade frameworks as they relate to intellectual property protection and the various instruments used to stimulate research and development (R&D) in the health sector.
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  Intellectual property on the internet: a survey of issues

  World Intellectual Property Organization, 2003

  This WIPO document addresses the far-reaching impact that digital technologies – the Internet in particular – have had on intellectual property (IP) and the international IP system.After a brief introduction describing general trends affecting the evolution of the Internet, the survey addresses the evolving digital economy and the migration of intellectual property to the internet, as well as t
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  Implementing the Doha Mandate on TRIPS and Public Health

  Development Gateway, 2003

  This World Bank Trade Note reviews the state of play in the ongoing negotiations over the implementation of the Doha mandate on TRIPS and public health.
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  Who owns traditional knowledge ?

  Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2003

  This paper examines issues relating to the question of whether rights to use of traditional knowledge belong inside international intellectual property rights (IPR) regimes or outside them.
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  The potential demand for an HIV/AIDS vaccine in Brazil

  World Bank, 2002

  This study assesses the potential demand by the public sector for a preventive HIV/AIDS vaccine in Brazil and the costs of alternative strategies for a vaccination program.The study reviews the cost and impact of HIV/AIDS in Brazil, in terms of disease and economic burden, as a proxy for the benefits of an HIV/AIDS vaccine.
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  Measuring medicine prices, availability, affordability and price components (2nd edition)

  World Health Organization, 2008

  In developing countries, most medicines are paid out-of-pocket by individual patients rather than being subsidised through social insurance.
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  Biotechnology and food security in Africa: some policy and institutional considerations

  International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2002

  This paper asks how biotechnology can affect food security in Africa. It advices caution in either promoting or opposing biotechnology for its own sake.The paper argues that:no technology by and of itself has internal momentum to create food security for any society of region. It is how the technology is applied and moulded by society that determines its usefulness.
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  Globalisation and the international governance of modern biotechnology: the implications for food security in Kenya

  International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2003

  This paper argues that for modern biotechnology research to have long term and wider positive social impact in Kenya, changes in policies and institutions must be implemented to ensure that it benefits the smallholder farmers who make up the majority of Kenya’s population.Critical issues examined include:biosafety food safetyloss of biodiversity IPRsThe report makes

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