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How stronger patent protection in India might affect the behavior of transnational pharmaceutical industries
World Bank, 2000Paper asks: How will stronger patent rights in developing countries affect transnational corporations' behavior in and toward those countries? How will market structure and consumer welfare be affected by extending patent protection to products that could previously be freely imitated?DocumentIdentifying the needs for managing intellectual property in Latin America
International Service for National Agricultural Research, 1999Further to a study entitled "The use of proprietary biotechnology research inputs at selected Latin American NAROs", ISNAR has initiated a comprehensive project on intellectual property rights to be conducted in Asia and Latin America.DocumentReaping what you sow: an empirical analysis of international patent harmonization
Center for International Development, Harvard University, 1999This paper extends analysis of the GATT Uruguay Round by quantifying the impact of international patent harmonisation as implied by the TRIPs agreement.What emerges is a picture of patent protection as an important method for appropriating the rents of an invention.DocumentIntellectual property rights and foreign direct investment
Centre for International Economic Studies, School of Economics of the University of Adelaide, 2000This paper reviews the theory and evidence on how intellectual property rights may influence decisions on FDI and technology transfers.The message is that, while there are indications that strengthening IPRs can be an effective incentive for inward FDI, it is only a component of a broader set of factors.DocumentReview of the TRIPS agreement: fostering the transfer of technology to developing countries
Third World Network, 2000This article examines the background and objectives of the proposals made by developing countries with an aim to reviewing the TRIPS Agreement.DocumentStudy in the relationship between the agreement on TRIPS and biodiversity related issues
European Union, 2000The main objective of the study was to provide the Commission with a comprehensive background document on the relationship between IPRs as covered by the provisions of the TRIPs agreement and biodiversity related issues.DocumentHow stronger protection of intellectual property rights affects international trade flows
World Bank, 1999This study provides new evidence regarding the effects of patent protection on international trade. It employs a gravity model of bilateral trade flows and estimates the effects of increased protection on a cross-section of 89x88 countries. It improves on previous studies in two respects.DocumentA community guide to protecting Indigenous Knowledge
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 2001This article is a guide, aimed at a community-level, to protecting Indigenous Knowledge.DocumentPills and pocketbooks: equity pricing of essential medicines in developing countries
Médecins Sans Frontières, 2001This paper, adapted from a presentation made at the WHO/WTO Workshop on Differential Pricing and Financing of Essential Drugs, Hosbjor, Norway, April 2001, argues that there will not be one single measure that will achieve equity pricing.DocumentPeople, Parks and Biodiversity: Issues in Population-Environment Dynamics
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995This overview paper broadly addresses the complex relationship between biodiversity, people and protected areas.Pages