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    Brazil to bypass patent on costly AIDS drug

    Ethics Newsline, Institute for Global Ethics, 2001
    Brazil's health minister announced last week (gone to press on the 23 Aug) that the government would break the patent of a leading anti-AIDS drug after its manufacturer, Hoffman-La Roche Inc., refused to lower its price to the level demanded by the government.Brazilian law allows a patent to be overridden if the government claims the patent holder is abusing its monopoly or in cases of national
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    Debt issues in Africa: thinking beyond the HIPC initiative to solving structural problems

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    Will the debt problem be over if the HIPIC initiative is fully successful and managed to write-off all debt that owed to Africa?This paper examines the historical origin of African debt and the structural problems the continent is confronted with. The literature about the origins of the African debt crisis lists a number of factors as its cause.
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    Regulatory standards in the WTO: comparing intellectual property rights with competition policy, environmental protection, and core labor standards

    Institute for International Economics, USA, 2000
    Paper addresses the question of whether regulatory and process standards, including competition policy, environmental standards, and worker rights, should be placed onto the WTO agenda. Because they evidently no longer may be excluded on the grounds of the inability of the trading system to discipline process standards, the argument must proceed on other grounds.
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    GATS and trade in health insurance services: background note for WHO commission on macroeconomics and health

    Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2001
    This note provides background on the treatment of health insurance services by GATS, and explains the relevance of current GATS negotiations for health insurance trade. It begins with a general description of GATS, indicates how health insurance is classified in GATS-defined service sectors, and outlines options countries have when making insurance-related market access commitments.
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    Trade in health services

    Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2001
    The objective of this study is to provide an overview of the nature of international trade in health services and the lessons that can be learnt from the national, regional, and multilateral experience in this context.Paper discusses the various ways in which health services can be traded, the main global players in this trade, and the positive as well as negative implications of this trade for
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    Protection of traditional medicine

    Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2001
    Paper emphasises the importance of the protection of traditional medicine. It gives a definition of traditional knowledge, with particular emphasis on traditional medicine and examines the role of traditional medicine - in particular in respect of products that may have applications in the treatment of disease outside of the local context in which the traditional medicines were developed.
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    Parallel imports of pharmaceutical products in the European Union

    World Bank, 2001
    Paper studies the effects of parallel trade in the pharmaceutical industry.
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    Post-TRIPS options for access to patented medicines in developing countries

    Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2001
    Since developing countries spend a large percentage of their private household health expenditures on drugs, affordability of patented medicines is particularly important.
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    E-commerce: impacts and policy challenges

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2001
    This paper assesses:the potential outcomes and economic impacts of e-commerce in the business to business spherespotential outcomes and economic impacts of e-commerce in the business to consumer spheresthe forces underlying e-commerce expansionpossible implications for structural and macroeconomic policy management
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    South-South regional integration and industrial growth: the case of the Andean pact

    World Bank, 2001
    This article investigates whether three Andean countries benefit from regional integration arrangements because of industry and cross-industry effects of scale.The article finds that:the variety of intermediate inputs originating from nonregional partners has a significant positive impact on growth in a handful of industriesthe effect of regional variety is at best mixed.

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