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is given to the role of article 27 of the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement as well as the …
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up the efficiency issue of implementing TRIPS and at the same time allowing international exhaustion of patent rights. …
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In “The right to good ideas: patents and the poor”, The Economist depicts two driving forces in the contemporary discourse on IP and globalization. The one is interested in advancing the knowledge economy, an approach based on the belief that knowledge is the driving factor behind economic...
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Agreement (WTO) in 1995 on the world economy and more specifically on the 2007-2008 financial crisis. The establishment of a … globalized world context determine through adequate sets of rules (such as the WTO agreements) the development of some countries …
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What are the effects of the WTO's TRIPS Agreement on growth, welfare and income inequality? To analyze this question …, we develop an open-economy R&D-driven endogenous-growth model with wealth heterogeneity. Under TRIPS, the North … importance of foreign goods below which global welfare decreases under TRIPS. In light of our findings, we discuss policy …
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Small firms dominate the Indian pharmaceutical industry with significant contribution to the national drug production and employment. They had played an important role in enhancing domestic technological capabilities in drugs production and have been instrumental in keeping drugs prices...
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The article explains the peculiarities of institutional effects on growth rates in post-communist countries. By proposing a certain dependence of the institution-growth nexus on the nature of institutional emergence, the distinction between revolutionary and evolutionary processes of institution...
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Mechanisms of compensation and reward for environmental services (CRES) are becoming increasingly contemplated as means for managing human–environment interactions. Most of the functional mechanisms in the tropics have been developed within the last 15 years; many developing countries still...
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The original institutionalist theory of institutional change as elaborated by Paul D. Bush (1987) in the traditions of Veblen, Ayres and J.F. Foster (called here the VAFB-paradigm), provides a most important theoretical and empirical device for critical institutional analysis, with its...
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This dissertation analyzes the importance of institutions for economic performance. The first two chapters assess the importance of institutions empirically, while the last one provides a dynamic model of institutional change. Chapter 1 analyzes the robustness of institutions in growth...
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