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  Intellectual property needs and expectations of traditional knowledge holders

  World Intellectual Property Organization, 2000

  This Report presents information compiled by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) from nine fact-finding missions on the intellectual property (IP) needs and expectations of holders of traditional knowledge (TK).The first section of the chapter "Framing the Intellectual Property Needs and Expectations of Traditional Knowledge Holders " provides a basic and general introduction to
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  Review of the TRIPS agreement: fostering the transfer of technology to developing countries

  Third World Network, 2000

  This article examines the background and objectives of the proposals made by developing countries with an aim to reviewing the TRIPS Agreement.
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  Study in the relationship between the agreement on TRIPS and biodiversity related issues

  European Union, 2000

  The 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.
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  Aid versus trade revisited

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2001

  Examines the (non) equivalence between aid flows and trade preferences as alternative forms of donor assistance in the presence of learning-by-doing externalities in recipient country export production.
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  Adjustment and poverty in Mexican agriculture: how farmers' wealth affects supply response

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  By and large, it appears that the goals of agricultural reform are being met in Mexico.
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  Nontariff barriers Africa faces : what did the Uruguay Round accomplish, and what remains to be done?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  African countries should generally benefit from the Uruguay Round liberalization of non tariff barriers, although some countries may suffer losses. The main danger could be failure to undertake the domestic reforms needed to take advantage of the more competitive trade environment.Perhaps the major accomplishment of the Uruguay Round is agreements reached on non tariff barriers (NTBs).
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  Agricultural trade and rural development in the Middle East and North Africa: recent developments and prospects

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  More robust, dynamic growth could significantly boost sustainable economic growth and rural development in countries in the Middle East and North Africa with a comparative advantage in agriculture. But high levels of protection in many of those countries contribute to overvalued exchange rates and a significant bias against agriculture.
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  Agriculture and the policy environment: Zambia and Zimbabwe: political dreams and policy nightmares

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  The paper examines the effect of differing policies in the post-independence period on the agricultural and overall economic performance of Zambia and Zimbabwe. It focuses on the interaction between macroeconomic and agricultural policy reforms. It shows that macro and micro reforms need to be closely linked and that both are critical to sectoral performance.
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  People, Parks and Biodiversity: Issues in Population-Environment Dynamics

  American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995

  This overview paper broadly addresses the complex relationship between biodiversity, people and protected areas.
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  Compensating local communities for conserving biodiversity: how much, who will, how and when

  Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, 1999

  Large number of local communities across the world have shared unhesitatingly their knowledge about local biodiversity and its different uses with outsiders including researchers, corporations, gene collectors and of course, activists. Many continue to share despite knowing that by withholding this knowledge they could receive pecuniary advantage.

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