toward the end of 2010). Yet, between 2000-04 and 2005-09 world cotton production increased 13 percent. This paper … conjectures that biotechnology-induced productivity improvements increased supplies by China and India, which, in addition to … biotechnology. By contrast, with a single exception, Africa has not adopted biotechnology and, not coincidentally, its cotton output …

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 … patent system is more than a statute. This paper discusses the steps that India must still take to develop an effective …

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

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 …

shown to exceed those from a successful campaign under the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda to reduce and …

Innovation Research Initiative and the Biotechnology Industry Partnership Program, which together have allocated more than US$70 …

The authors present a database of indicators of innovative activity around the world since the early 1960s. The data …

cultural sector a crucial part of the wealth of nations, and how could the World Bank Group better leverage the performing arts … data, 4. promoting intellectual property training programs, 5. supporting digital platforms in the developing world that …