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    Patent protection and access to HIV/AIDS pharmaceuticals in Sub-Saharan Africa

    World Intellectual Property Organization, 2000
    This paper reviews the TRIPS patent and, in particular, those provisions relevant to the issue of pharmaceuticals and the patent situation in sub-Saharan Africa with regard to the protection of anti-retroviral HIV/AIDS drugs. Patent offices and pharmaceutical companies were surveyed to discover the extent to which anti-retroviral HIV/AIDS drugs were being patented.
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    Bilateralism in intellectual property

    Oxfam, 2001
    Examines the way in which bilateral trade negotiations (Bilateral Investment Treaties and Bilateral Intellectual Property Agreements) are being used by the USA and others to build more extensive protection for intellectual property than that set out in the WTO TRIPS Agreement.
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    AIDS: the undeclared war

    Stakeholder Forum, 2001
    Identifying the key issues relating to the war on HIV / AIDS as access to medication, cultural factors, lack of knowledge and resource short-fall this paper discusses broad areas of change needed to break current trends.The author goes on to suggest some more detailed policy responses for governments, ngos, the private sector and international institutions placing HIV /AIDS in the context of th
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    Patterns of trade and foreign direct investment in Africa: a simple test of the new trade theory with multinationals

    Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2000
    This study presents an empirical survey of the patterns of trade and FDI in Africa based on a sample of 28 countries and their transactions with the OECD countries.
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    Globalisation and industrial location: the impact of trade policy when geography matters

    Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2000
    The paper shows how industrial location and welfare depends on “most-favoured nation” (MFN) versus distance-related trade barriersThe article finds that:manufacturing production will cluster close to the periphery if transport costs are relatively highin central areas if MFN barriers are relatively high, the peripheries will be at a disadvantage, which increases when trade barriers
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    The global governance of trade as if development really mattered

    United Nations Development Programme, 2001
    This paper presents an alternative account of economic development, one which questions the centrality of trade and trade policy and emphasizes instead the critical role of domestic institutional innovations. It argues that economic growth is rarely sparked by imported blueprints and opening up the economy is hardly ever critical at the outset.
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    New enclosures: alternative mechanisms to enhance corporate monopoly and bioserfdom in the 21st century

    Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration formerly RAFI, 2001
    Intellectual property has proved a poor mechanism in corporations battle to monopolise new biotechnologies.
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    Trade, gender and poverty

    United Nations Development Programme, 2001
    This paper focuses on the relationship of trade, on the one hand, with gender and poverty, on the other, within the context of the human development paradigm. Specifically, it examines the impact of trade liberalization on gender inequalities (primarily via employment, wages and the care economy) and the impact of gender inequality on trade performance.
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    Derestricted Uruguay Round negotiating documents on TRIPS

    World Trade Organization, 1994
    84 derestricted documents from GATT / WTO providing details of the negotiations during the Uruguay Round which led to the TRIPS Agreement. some of them are reports of meetings, others material compiled by the GATT Secretariat, including synoptic tables of proposals. Two documents in the package are the draft “Final Act” of December 1990.
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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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