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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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Information System (HMIS). The launching of a national portal-based HMIS by Government of India in 2008 was a bold and innovative …
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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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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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This thesis deals with the influence of the international regime of intellectual property established by the Marrakesh Agreement (WTO) in 1995 on the world economy and more specifically on the 2007-2008 financial crisis. The establishment of a patent was first granted in the fifteenth century by...
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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 efficiency of Turkish health system, which was restructured by the health transformation framework, depends on the mutual compliance of both health service providers and demanders. The future and success of the new health system may be determined by solving problems that were generated from...
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Increasing and sustaining the quality of life for people can be possible when they are healthy. Good health conditions require good quality and reachable health care services. Because of the market failure as a result of asymmetric information, public sector as well as private one provides...
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The main objectives of this paper are to review policies on health services and to provide an assessment of public health facilities and the access of people to health care services in Vietnam. Medical facilities and staffs in public establishments have been increasing. Health insurance has been...
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