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India's Journey Toward an Effective Patent
Abramson, Bruce - 2016
The decade following India's accession to the World Trade Organization's Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property … patent system is more than a statute. This paper discusses the steps that India must still take to develop an effective … analysis combines data studies of historical and recent patenting activity in India and by Indians, interviews with Indian …
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Pharmaceutical Patents and Prices : A Preliminary Empirical Assessment Using Data from India
Duggan, Mark - 2017
Nervous System market in India. The Central Nervous System segment is the second largest therapeutic category in terms of … retail sales in the world and is one of the fastest growing segments in India. Using information on product patents granted …
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Notes on Patents, Distortions, and Development
Wodon, Quentin T. - 2017
The idea behind patent policies is to increase the output of commercially useful innovations by creating a transitory propertyy right that allows the inventor to appropriate part of the returns from his invention. In developing countries, two types of considerations need to be addressed. First,...
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The Economic Effects of Counterfeiting and Piracy : A Review and Implications for Developing Countries
Fink, Carsten - 2017
Policy makers around the world recognize the potentially harmful consequences of trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy. Indeed, many countries have recently initiated policy reforms to strengthen the enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR). Further, minimum standards of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969926
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Promoting Intellectual Property Monetization in Developing Countries : A Review of Issues and Strategies to Support Knowledge-Driven Growth
Ghafele, Roya - 2017
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 markets. Based on a review of World Intellectual...
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Implications of the Doha Market Access Proposals for Developing Countries
Laborde, David - 2017
This paper uses detailed data on bound and applied tariffs to assess the consequences of the World Trade Organization?s December 2008 Modalities for tariffs levied and faced by developing countries, and the welfare implications of these reforms. The authors find that the tiered formula for...
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Developing Countries and Monitoring WTO Commitments in Response to the Global Economic Crisis
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
This paper examines the role of the public sector in providing additional information to exporters in developing countries as they seek to monitor and keep open their access to foreign markets by using the rules of the WTO system. It highlights new information generation and dissemination...
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Developing Countries, Dispute Settlement, and the Advisory Centre on WTO Law
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
Critical appraisals of the current and potential benefits from developing country engagement in the World Trade Organization (WTO) focus mainly on the Doha Round of negotiations. This paper examines developing country participation in the WTO dispute settlement system to enforce foreign market...
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The World Trade Organization and Antidumping in Developing Countries
Bown, Chad P. - 2016
, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru, Turkey and Venezuela. For these countries we are able to match data from two newly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747971
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Implications of WTO Agreements and Unilateral Trade Policy Reforms for Poverty in Bangladesh : Short Versus Long-Run Impacts
Annabi, Nabil - 2016
The authors examine the effects of WTO agreements and domestic trade policy reforms on production, welfare, and poverty in Bangladesh. They use a sequential dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, which takes into account accumulation effects, allowing for long-run analysis. The...
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