The idea behind patent policies is to increase the output of commercially useful innovations by creating a transitory … types of considerations need to be addressed. First, there are issues of designing an appropriate patent system. This … intellectual property rights. Second, and more fundamentally, the investments that patent incentives trigger in research and …

, functioning patent system capable of attracting foreign direct investment, motivating domestic innovation and education, and …The decade following India's accession to the World Trade Organization's Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property … ushered in numerous changes to the country's patent system, culminating in a series of amendments in 2005. But a functioning …

Policy makers around the world recognize the potentially harmful consequences of trademark counterfeiting and copyright …

markets. Based on a review of World Intellectual Property Report indicators, the patent ownership gap between a sample of …This paper outlines and evaluates several intellectual property monetization strategies available to patent holders in … developing countries that help generate domestic innovation and knowledge-driven growth by promoting more active technology …

rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two …

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what quot;povertyquot; means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more … the early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world …

Most of the world's poorest people depend on farming for their livelihood. Earnings from farming in low …

Since the 1995 inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO), developing countries have become some of the most …