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  International drug price indicator guide

  Management Sciences for Health, 2002

  Just as the first large tenders for East Africa in the late 1970s considerably reduced the international world market prices for generic essential medicines, the recent price information services on antiretroviral medicines have contributed to the reduced prices for these drugs.
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  Hunger, private property rights, and the right to food

  Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, 2002

  This paper questions whether the right to food as a minimum requirement for social and economic welfare, are fully compatible with freedom rights (on which property rights are based) and their implications on private markets.
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  Assessing globalization's critics: talkers are no good doers?

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 2002

  This paper is about the critics of the “doers” of globalization. It describes who they are, where they came from, what they want, how economists, policymakers, and others might understand them better?
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  MSF Briefing Document for G8, Evian, France

  Médecins Sans Frontières, 2003

  Examines the health related goals endorsed by the 2000 G8 ministerial summit in Okinawa and re-evaluates what needs to be done in order for these goals to be met.
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  Legitimacy and the TRIPS agreement

  Department of Economics, University of Wollongong, Australia, 2002

  This paper is an analysis of TRIPS using concepts developed by Franck in his theory of international legitimacy which presumes that different international law exerts different “pull to compliance” depending upon the extent to which “the rule is characterised by greater or lesser” legitimacy.Franck defines legitimacy in terms of four factors:DeterminacySymbolic ValidationCoheren
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  Patents, pills and public health: can TRIPS deliver?

  Panos Institute, London, 2002

  To comply with the agreement on Trade Related aspects of Intellectual Property rights (TRIPS), patent legislation is being introduced in many countries where previously it did not exist.
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  The composition of foreign direct investment and protection of intellectual property rights

  World Bank, 2002

  Looks at the impact of intellectual property protection on the composition of FDI inflows, using a unique firm-level data set from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The report finds that weak protection deters foreign investors in technology-intensive sectors that rely heavily on intellectual property rights.The results also indicate that a weak intellectual property regime encour
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  Canadian development report 2003

  North-South Institute, 2003

  The sixth edition of the Canadian Development Report (CDR) looks at multilateral trade arrangements from both the perspectives of the North and the South.
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  Intellectual property rights, innovation and public health

  World Health Organization, 2003

  The need is greater than ever for innovation in health-care products, including medicines, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and medical devices. Nonetheless, a significant proportion of the world’s population, especially in developing countries, has yet to derive much benefit from innovations that are commonplace elsewhere. The reasons range from weak supply systems to unaffordable prices.
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  The UK Government response to the report of the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights: “Integrating intellectual property rights and development policy”

  Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, 2003

  This paper constitutes the UK Governments official response to the final report of the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights which it established in 2001.

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