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  Intellectual property rights and the use of compulsory licences: options for developing countries

  South Centre, 1999

  Compulsory licensing system has become a typical feature of patent laws; it has also been widely adopted in other areas of intellectual property rights. Developed countries have largely relied on such licenses in order to limit exclusive rights and prevent or remedy abusive practices in several areas.
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  Biotechnology Policy for Development Country Agriculture

  OECD Development Centre, 1997

  Biotechnology offers the potential for more environmentally-friendly agriculture but the conditions for developing countries to take advantage of that potential should be created. Policy intervention is needed to ensure that biotechnology responds to the priorities set for agriculture.
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  Commercialization of research and technology

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1997

  This handbook provides information designed Slow changing cultures, long gestation periods i n to assist decision-makers to choose and properl y the R&D and transfer process, lack of crucial manage one or more commercialization schemes if organization knowledge, insufficient enforcement commercialization is deemed relevant and of intellectual property rights and slowly changing possible.
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  Traditional forest-related knowledge and the Convention on Biological Diversity

  Convention on Biological Diversity, 1996
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  Access to land and land policy reforms

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001

  The objective of the research that this policy brief reports on is to analyse different mechanisms of access to land for the rural poor in an era when redistribution through expropriative land reform is largely inconsistent with the forces of political economy.
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  From GATT to WTO and beyond

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2000

  The aim of this paper is to analyse the evolution of the international trading system from its inception as GATT in 1947 to its latest incarnation as WTO. The study focuses on the adequacy or inadequacy of the system as it evolved and functioned in an environment of changing international economic and political reality.
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  In search of higher ground: the intellectual property challange to public agricultural research and human rights and 28 alternative initiatives

  Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration formerly RAFI, 2000

  Paper argues that public research institutes have not thought through their context, or their choices. They have taken the path of least resistance and followed the IP trail. There are at least 28 specific policy initiatives they should consider.
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  Integrating public health concerns into patent legislation in developing countries

  South Centre, 2000

  This document presents options for the design and implementation of public-health-sensitive patent policies in developing countries.
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  Literature survey on intellectual property rights and sustainable human development

  Department for International Development, UK, 2000

  The references are arranged by the following subject areas:general textsagricultural development and food securitybiodiversity and the environmentIPRs and biotechnologyIPRs, media and information technologyhuman rightsbusiness and industrial developmentthe knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous peoples and local communitiespublic educationpub
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  WTO: Understanding the Development Angle [Trade and Development Background Briefings]

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  Series of 10 short background papers, each on a different aspect of the WTO agenda and describing how developing countries may be affected by different outcomes, and what preparations they need to make to participate effectively. Developing countries have joined the WTO in large numbers, in the expectation that its objectives of rule-based liberal trade will foster development.

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