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    Community-based rights and IPR regime: revisiting the debate

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2007
    India, with a view to fulfil its TRIPS obligations, in 2001, passed the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Act 20012 (PPVFA). The Act represents a sui generis attempt to balance the rights of farmers with breeders considering the huge farming population in the country.
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    Regional economic integration, foreign direct investment and efficiency-seeking industrial restructuring in Asia: the case of India

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2007
    Regional economic integration has been a most striking trend of the 1990s led by Single European Market by European Union in 1992 and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994. These RTAs pursued a deeper type of integration covering preferential free trading arrangements complemented by investment liberalisation across the region.
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    Indian innovation systems and emergence of biopharmaceutical sector: issues and prospects

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2007
    With the advent of biotechnology in the pharmaceutical sector, the Indian innovation system seems to get set for a major paradigm shift.
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    Welfare gains from regional economic integration in Asia: ASEAN+3 or EAS

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2007
    The experiences of Asian countries suggest that the region has substantial economic potentials and synergies between these countries and they can be better tapped with comprehensive economic cooperation. With this approach formation of an Asian Economic Community is not too far away from now. Next phase of liberalisation in Asia should focus on deep economic integration.
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    Brazilian economy: recent evolution and new perspectives for South-South cooperation

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2007
    Brazilian economic stagnation of the early 1980s mirrors that of the other Latin American countries. Thus, comparison on the economic data for the whole of Latin America from 1980 up to today and those of the 1950-1980 period, reveals that investment rates are substantially lower; unemployment is higher; and the average income of salaried workers is lower.
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    WTO and Trade in Electronically Delivered Software (EDS): emerging challenges and policy options - an Indian perspective

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2007
    As the globalisation has intensified and the outreach of internet has expanded, the digitalisation of the trade has assumed new dimensions. The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) including the electronic commerce is being looked at as a key links for trade facilitation.
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    Intellectual property regime, indigenous knowledge system and access and benefit sharing: drawing lessons from Kani case

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2007
    Since the adoption of Doha Declaration, relationship between indigenous knowledge system (IKS) and TRIPs related issues have come at the centre stage as most of the members of World Trade Organisation (WTO) have emphasised on delineating and other parts of the plant for phytochemical and pharmacological studies at the Regional Research Laboratory (RRL) at Jammu, as the AICRPE project was coordi
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    Deepening India–Bangladesh economic cooperation: challenges and opportunities

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2007
    In recent years, South Asia has received growing attention as a region that is integrating successfully into the global economy. To maximise the benefits in terms of faster growth and poverty reduction, the region will need to strengthen regional and bilateral cooperation in several areas.
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    Regional cooperation and integration prospects in Asia

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2007
    There is indeed a strong opportunity for South Asian countries to benefit from intensifying regional ties. As a regional policy dialogue becomes stronger and barriers are gradually eliminated, or at least substantially reduced, economic integration will intensify in the next decade or two. This is partly due to the very low level of integration it starts from.
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    The WTO’s Doha negotiations: an assessment

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2008
    The lure of big benefits from successful conclusion of the multilateral negotiations and the risks of bilateral and regional routes if these negotiations fail should not be taken by the developing countries as determining factors in their moves in the current World Trade Organisation (WTO) Doha negotiations.

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