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negotiating stance adopted by various member countries at the WTO during the last decade while attempting to formulate a set of …
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By the end of 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) will complete its five years of existence. At that time, re … have used various escape routes in the WTO agreements to minimise their reform commitments. India will have to concentrate …
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the objective of this report is to analyse the existing and potential links that can be established between current Geographical Indications (GIs) and regional sustainable development. A case study approach, centred on European case studies, has been carried out. The European Union appears as a...
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(WTO) negotiations on GI to date. The Indian GI Act in light of the TRIPS provisions is analysed, portrays the current …
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It has become increasingly clear that the services negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda will not produce significant improvements on current commitments unless major new impetus is provided. In an introductory section, this paper discusses various impediments, from the perspective of...
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This paper is intended to be a contribution towards the improvement of transparency and efficiency of patentability examination for pharmaceuticals inventions, particularly in developing countries. It proposes a set of general guidelines for the assessment of some of the common modalities of...
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when it comes to WTO negotiations as its interests coincide given the agenda that seeks to free trade asymmetrically with … alliance at the WTO negotiations. The genesis of IBSAC and the phenomenon of growing regionalism are analysed. The possible … emergence of IBSAC as a negotiating coalition at the WTO forums is discussed next. The chapter is followed by an analysis on the …
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This article traces the history of negotiations in the WTO on Trade Facilitation, the only Singapore issue that has … survived beyond Doha and Cancun. Last ten years of sustained work by the negotiators in the WTO has considerably narrowed down … the areas for final agreement. The author, a key negotiator at the WTO negotiations, provides an insider’s view of how …
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and/or subsidized private provision - that may be used by WTO Members to meet typical public service objectives. It turns …
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The industry and firm-level patterns of anti-dumping (AD) use across 18 most active AD user countries are analysed. For the analysis, the study makes use of the newly available “Global Anti-dumping Databaseâ€. The industry and firm level patterns in the period from 1995-2004 are used....
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