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  Regulating bioprospecting: institutions for drug research, access and benefit-sharing

  United Nations University, 2005

  This policy brief summarises the main arguments and conclusions of a book by United Nations University Press, of the same title, which examines the regulation of bioprospecting for drug research from an interdisciplinary law and economics perspective.The book examines optimal property rights structures and institutional mechanisms for regulating bioprospecting for drug research.
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  The role of property rights protection on the effects of free trade agreements on foreign direct investment

  Global Development Network, 2003

  Globalization has been associated with an increasing number of free trade agreements focusing mainly on increasing FDI flows to emerging markets.The author argues that international agreements have a differentiated effect on FDI depending on the definition of property rights in the receiving country.
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  Why the rich may favour poor protection of property rights?

  Global Development Network, 2002

  In unequal societies, the rich might benefit from shaping economic institutions into their favor. This paper analyzes the dynamics of institutional subversion focusing on one particular institution, public protection of property rights. The author argues that rich agents could expropriate other agents using their private protection capacities.
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  Copyright-based industries in Arab countries

  Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, 2004

  This paper describes and explains empirically the economic performance of four key copyright-based industries (the book publishing, music sound recording, film production and software industries) in five Arab countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon).
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  Rhetoric, realism and benefit sharing: use of traditional knowledge of Hoodia species in the development of an appetite suppressant

  Biowatch South Africa, 2004

  This article reviews the case study of the Hoodia cactus and the access and benefit sharing agreement between CSIR and the San peoples.Species of the succulent plant Hoodia have long been used by the San and other groups in Southern Africa to stave off hunger and thirst.
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  Comparison study of Free/Open Source and Proprietary Software in an African context: implementation and policy-making to optimise community access to ICT

  Bridges.org, 2005

  This surveys looks at the software used by public-access computer labs in Namibia, South Africa and Uganda.
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  Access to medicines at risk across the globe: what to watch out for in free trade agreements with the United States

  Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, MSF, 2004

  The United States (US) is using bilateral trade agreements to restrict the availability of low-cost medicines to developing countries, according to this briefing paper from Médecins Sans Frontiéres (MSF).The US was forced to compromise on its position on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) during the World Trade Organisation (WTO) multilateral trade agreements.
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  Understanding the issues: what's the matter with trade?

  Norwegian Church Aid, 2005

  This is a set of papers that address the questions: do equal rules really allow poor producers to receive a fair share of the trade wealth and does the current free trade system represent equal rules at all?
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  Patents on genetic resources contradict "facilitated access"

  Berne Declaration, 2005

  This policy briefing was prepared for the third meeting of the working group on access and benefit-sharing (ABS) which took place in Bangkok on February 20, 2005.The brief examines the impact that intellectual property rights (IPRs) has on access to these genetic resources for local communities and indigenous peoples.
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  Corporate conquest, global geopolitics: intellectual property rights and bilateral investment treaties

  GRAIN, 2005

  This paper examines how bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and free trade agreements (FTAs) which contain specific investment provisions reflect geopolitical concerns as well as economic ones.

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