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  Intellectual property rights, technology and economic development: experiences of Asian countries

  Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2003

  This paper critically reviews the literature on the role of intellectual property protection (IPP) regimes in economic development.
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  Trade for life: making trade work for poor people

  Christian Aid, 2001

  This report assesses the global trade rules and asks how they can be rewritten in order to benefit poor people.The paper argues that trade should not be driven by a theoretical model whose impact on poor people, they claim, is at best irrelevant and at worst damaging.
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  Trade in genetically modified food: a survey of empirical studies

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper analyses the current and potential economic impact of GM commodities on world trade.It concludes that: in general, adopters of the more productive GM technologies gain, while non-adopters or GM-critical regions either do not gain at all or only gain some (through changes in world prices), depending on how strongly they segment their markets.
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  Intellectual property rights in South Africa: an economic review of policy and impact

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2002

  This paper presents itself as the first step toward a comprehensive economic review of the intellectual property regime in South Africa, and is aimed at reintroducing economics into the intellectual property debate and evaluating the appropriateness of South Africa’s laws for its stage of development and economic policy framework.A discussion of the economic theory of IPRs is followed by a revi
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  ISF view on intellectual property

  International Seed Federation, 2002

  This position paper from the International Seed Federation, an industry body, sets out the position of its members on IP protection for plant breeders and other related issues. ISF members are, not surprisingly, unanimously in favour of a strong IP protection.The federation considers that both ‘sui generis’ and patent style systems are legitimate.
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  Law, property rights, and social exclusion: a capabilities and entitlements approach to legal pluralism

  Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 2002

  What are the effects of trends away from legal pluralism towards more uniform approaches to the law? This paper analyses the effects of legal changes in property rights for people's welfare and development in India.
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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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  Development Gateway Spotlight on Intellectual Property Rights

  Development Gateway, 2003

  In honor of Intellectual Property Day 2003 this Development Gateway feature considers what lies ahead for developing countries as they implement IPRs, including the potential threat that IPR pose to food security in Africa, issues behind Trade Related Intellectual Property (TRIPs), and the role of NGOs in intellectual property dialogues.The Spotlight features comprehensive information and reso
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  Memorandum prepared by the Office of UPOV on the genetic use restriction technologies

  International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants, 2003

  This report from UPOV to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) examines the effect of genetic use restriction technologies (GURTs) on the sharing of benefits arising out of new plant varieties in comparison to the protection provided by the UPOV Convention.Not surprisingly it argues that the introduction of a legal framework according to the UPOV Convention offers adeq
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  Keeping science open: the effects of intellectual property policy on the conduct of science

  Royal Society, 2003

  This Royal Society report considers whether there could be improvements in the ways intellectual property law, its interpretation and its use impact on science. Focusing on the UK the report argues that public funding of science should be based on the quality of research as opposed to the recent emphasis on wealth creation and the securing IPRs.

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