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  Bioinformatics and the developing world

  Biotechnology and Development Monitor, 1999

  Bioinformatics is the science of managing and analysing biological information, but the future use of this technology hinges on the availability of bioinformatics knowledge in the public domain.
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  Biodiversity for sale: dismantling the hype about benefit sharing

  GRAIN, 2000

  This briefing questions whether the world’s primary custodians of biodiversity, local communities and indigenous people, are getting a fair deal. It looks at the implications of the move towards ‘biotrade’ and discusses the validity of intellectual property rights as benefit sharing tools, or as tools to protect indigenous knowledge.
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  Meanings of sustainable agriculture: some issues for the South

  South Centre, 2000

  This publication explores the various dimensions of sustainable agriculture from the perspective of developing countries.
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  Drug pricing [in South Africa]

  Health Systems Trust, South Africa, 2001

  Improving access to necessary drugs requires attention to all four component parts of the access equation – ensuring rational selection, providing sustainable financing and efficient systems to distribute and use the drugs and making sure that prices are affordable.However, comparing drugs’ prices across countries and health systems is not always easy.
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  Review of the TRIPS agreement

  Biotechnology and Development Monitor, 1998

  Themed issue of the Monitor, with chapters submitted by various authors.
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  Market access for developing countries’ exports

  International Monetary Fund, 2001

  This article praises the the positive effects (economic growth, development, poverty reduction) of economic integration. This has largely been achieved by economic liberalization. Although integration has certainly benefited some countries, the benefits of integration have been uneven. Some countries have been marginalised by this process.
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  GATS 2000 negotiations: options for developing countries

  South Centre, 2000

  This working paper examines the issues related to the on-going WTO negotiations on trade in services, and their implications for developing countries.The major achievement of the Uruguay Round was to formulate an agreement on trade in services which provided for the following:the recognition of the basic asymmetry in the services capacity and regulatory framework and trade in services
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  Time to draw the line on IPRs

  GRAIN, 2001

  Edition of Seedling, GRAIN's quarterly publication.
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  Drug companies vs. Brazil: the threat to public health

  Oxfam, 2001

  The access of impoverished Brazilians to essential medicines, including those required for treatment of HIV/AIDS, is under threat.
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  Trade liberalisation and customs revenues: does trade liberalisation lead to lower customs revenues?: the case of Kenya

  Equity and Growth through Economic Research, 2000

  Investigates the impacts on revenue yields from year to year of: (i) trade volumes; (ii) import duty exemption policy and administration; (iii) the number of items classified as duty free; (iv) average import duty rates; (v) special duty rate regimes for oil and major agricultural products; and (vi) shifts in the composition of imports and exemptions between different import duty rate groups as th

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