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Searching with a thematic focus on Trade Policy, Intellectual Property Rights in India

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  Intellectual and cultural property rights of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Asia

  Minority Rights Group International, 2003

  This report looks at efforts by the UN and governments to protect indigenous and tribal heritage from exploitation; the pressures on governments to allow exploitation of indigenous knowledge; the many initiatives taken by Asian indigenous and tribal peoples to protect their heritage; and the effects of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the Trade-Related Aspects of International
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  Globalisation and the developing countries: emerging strategies for rural development and poverty alleviation

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2002

  This on-line book reviews the impact of globalisation on a range of issues, including the effects of changing global rules and regulations on the economies of developing countries in general, and their agricultural sectors in particular. The book divides into four main sections, and includes chapters by various authors.Part I: globalisation from the perspective of the South.
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  Intellectual property rights: food for the rich but poison for the poor?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Can rules concerning intellectual property rights (IPRs) benefit developing countries and reduce poverty? How should IPR rules and regimes cover access to genetic resources? Are the costs involved in patent litigation a necessary price to pay for the incentives offered by the patent system?
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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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  Global Health Forum II: intellectual property rights and global health: challenges for access and R&D

  Institute for Global Health, 2000

  The impact of stronger intellectual property (IP) rights regimes on public health has become the subject of considerable concern within international development circles. Views have frequently been divided between those who see strong IP regimes as likely to restrict access to medicines, and those who see patent protection as necessary to encourage development of new drugs and treatments.
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  Global Health Forum I: creating global markets for neglected drugs and vaccines: a challenge for public-private partnership

  Institute for Global Health, 2000

  Efforts to put the health gap between rich and poor countries at the top of the development political agenda have been renewed in recent years.
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  Benefits and shortcomings of intellectual property rights for small scale farmers in developing countries

  Agricultural Information and Documentation Service for Development Cooperation, 2002

  Rafael Mariano from the Peasant Movement of the Philippines presents his case arguing that intellectual property rights, and more broadly science, have been co-opted by business interests (supported by the US) to strengthen their control over agricultural production and to open up new markets at the expense of small farmers and developing countries.In particular he argues: The 1991 Act
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  Draft ministerial declaration: proposal from a group of developing countries.

  World Trade Organization, 2001

  Draft proposal by a grouping of less developed and developing countries for a declaration at the fourth WTO ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar. Outlines the general position of those countries with respect to implementation of the TRIPS agreement. The same URL has links to the contrasting developed countries draft proposal along with reporting on the discussion.
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  Liberalisation, multinational enterprises and export performance: evidence from Indian manufacturing.

  Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2001

  This paper tests two hypotheses.
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  The Uruguay Round and South Asia : an overview of the impact and opportunities

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  South Asia remains less liberal in trade policy than East Asia, including China. The Uruguay Round's most dramatic effect on South Asia will be the removal of non tariff barriers on the region's exports to the rest of the world.

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