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    The 3P proposal to accelerate innovation and access for new treatment regimens for TB

    Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, MSF, 2014
    The aim of the ‘3P Project’ is to rapidly deliver affordable, effective new regimens for tuberculosis (TB) through an open collaborative approach to conducting drug development and through novel approaches to financing and coordinating R&D. The 3P Project implements three mechanisms to facilitate the necessary and appropriate R&D for TB regimens:
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    The economics of intellectual property rights in developing countries: lessons from a literature review

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    Conventional economic theory asserts that inefficient markets result from a product or service for which there are no ready substitutes being provided by a single seller (i.e. a monopoly). An inefficient outcome is defined as one that does not maximise the welfare gains to society.
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    Economic partnership agreements and intellectual property rights protection: challenges for the Southern African Development Community region

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    The signing of the comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) by the European Community (EC) and Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) countries covering a wide range of issues, including intellectual property (IP) provisions, has the potential to influence negotiations for other EPA groups that have only signed a series of ‘goods-only’ interim EPAs.Even though IP is not included as o
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    Technology diffusion through intellectual property rights: innovating to combat climate change

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    Developing countries are the most affected by environmental degradation and yet lag behind industrialised nations in their access to, and adoption of, technologies.
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    Intellectual property rights and South Africa's innovation future

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008
    Intellectual property rights (IPR) and the legislation that manage them are not without problems and
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    Greening Global Value Chains: Innovation and the International Diffusion of Technologies and Knowledge

    World Bank, 2013
    Using novel data on patents, trade of equipment goods, and foreign direct investments and insights from the economic literature, this paper seeks to lay out the state of knowledge on the role of innovation and the diffusion of technologies in the greening of global value chains as well as some of the main policy issues.
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    Reconciling TRIPS and CBD through disclosure requirement

    South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2005
    The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) provides a multilaterally agreed set of rules for access to and sharing of benefits arising out of the commercial use of genetic resources, while WTO TRIPS agreement is sought to protect modern biotechnologies. In view of this, the current paper believes that CBD and TRIPS should be seen in conjunction with one another.
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    Protecting farmers' rights in the global IPR regime: challenges and options for developing countries

    South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2007
    Farmers’ rights are about enabling farmers to continue as stewards and innovators of agro-biodiversity, and about rewarding them for their contribution to the global genetic pool. This policy brief outlines central challenges and options for the realisation of farmers’ rights, indicating that farmers’ rights are a vital means in the fight against poverty.
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    The conflict between Seed Bill and PPVFR Act of India

    South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2009
    The Indian seed policy and related laws and regulations are stand-alone domestic devices for setting and enforcing national seed standards. This policy brief is an analysis of the complementarities and contradictions between the legislation governing seed trade and seed-related IPRs in India.
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    Intellectual property rights and public health: lessons from Thailand

    South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2009
    High prices of medicines is often the major cause of inaccessibility of medicines for poor patients in developing countries, and TRIPS agreement is often deemed as a main cause to raise medicines’ prices. However, there are avenues through the use of the TRIPS flexibilities – Thailand is an exemplary case study for other developing countries in this area.

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