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Product patents and access to innovative medicines in a post-trips-era

Watal, Jayashree; Dai, Rong - 2019

This WTO working paper studies availability and affordability of new and innovative pharmaceuticals in a post-TRIPS era …) How does the introduction of product patents in pharmaceuticals affect the likelihood of pharmaceutical firms to launch … markets, the study finds that introduction of product patent for pharmaceuticals in the patent law has a positive effect on …

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Trade in healthcare and health insurance services: The GATS as a supporting actor (?)

Adlung, Rudolf - 2009

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is broader in policy coverage than conventional trade agreements for goods and, at the same time, offers governments more flexibility, in various dimensions, to tailor their obligations to sector- or country-specific needs. An overview of...

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Public Services and the Gats

Adlung, Rudolf - 2009

The status of public services is one of the most hotly debated issues surrounding the GATS. There are two approaches to distinguish such services from any other services: an institutional approach that focuses on the legal and institutional conditions governing supply (e.g. ownership status,...

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Services Liberalization in the New Generation of Preferential Trade Agreements (Ptas) : How Much Further than the Gats?

Roy, Martin - 2010

This paper attempts to fill a gap in the trade literature by providing a comprehensive overview of services liberalization commitments in the new generation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) as compared to prevailing GATS commitments and Doha Round offers. By developing a new database, the...

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Trade Skirmishes and Safeguards : A Theory of the WTO Dispute Settlement Process

Beshkar, Mostafa - 2012

-reducing trade skirmishes. The DSP is interpreted as an impartial arbitrator that announces its opinion about the state of the world …

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Boosting Trade Finance in Developing Countries : What Link with the WTO?

Auboin, Marc - 2013

help them integrate in world trade. As an institution geared towards the balanced expansion of world trade, the WTO is in …

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Trade Remedy Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements

Teh, Robert; Prusa, Thomas J.; Budetta, Michele - 2007

This paper maps the provisions on anti-dumping, countervailing duties and safeguards in seventy-four regional trade agreements. The key concern of the paper is that the elastic and selective nature of trade remedies may lead to more discrimination, with reduced trade remedy actions against RTA...

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Institutions, Trade Policy and Trade Flows

Jansen, Marion; Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik - 2010

This paper analyses to which extent domestic institutions affect trade flows. We use two complementary approaches, one focusing on the size of total trade flows and one focusing on bilateral trade patterns (gravity equation). Besides, we control for two other domestic policy variables: trade...

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Infrastructure and Trade

Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik; Piermartini, Roberta - 2006

This paper explores the role that quality of infrastructure has on a country's trade performance, estimating a gravity model that incorporates bilateral tariffs and a number of indicators for the quality of infrastructure. The paper looks at the impact of the quality of infrastructure (road,...

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Liberalizing Financial Services Trade in Africa : Going Regional and Multilateral

Jansen, Marion; Vennes, Yannick - 2010

This paper analyses the possible gains from regional and multilateral liberalization of financial services trade for African countries taking into account the implications of such liberalization for financial regulation and capital account liberalization. It also describes existing efforts to...

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