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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 …
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This paper documents the influence of diaspora networks of highly-skilled individuals -- that is, inventors -- on international technological collaborations. Using gravity models, it studies the determinants of the internationalization of inventive activity between a group of industrialized...
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Using novel data on patents, trade of equipment goods, and foreign direct investments and insights from the economic literature, the paper seeks to lay out the state of knowledge on the role of innovation and the diffusion of technologies in the greening of global value chains as well as some of...
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This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the … percent on average. Escalating export restrictions would multiply the initial shock by a factor of 3, with world food prices …
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This paper quantifies the wide-ranging costs of potential increases in worldwide barriers to trade in two scenarios. First, a coordinated global withdrawal of tariff commitments from all existing bilateral/regional trade agreements, as well as from unilateral preferential schemes coupled with an...
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results support the conclusion from earlier studies that there is a need for stronger World Trade Organization disciplines on …
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apply the World Trade Organization's global safeguards policy instrument. The four examples include recent policies applied …
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Trade policy commitments to lower import tariffs and to maintain tariffs at low levels entail short and long-run political-economic costs and benefits. Empirical work examining the relationship between such commitments and the exercise of trade policy flexibilities is still relatively nascent,...
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more severe than, the Great Depression of 1930, but did not give rise to the rampant protectionism that followed the Great …. World Trade Organization disciplines raise the cost of using trade policies for member countries and have proved to be a …
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elasticity. Results show that there is no widespread increase in protectionism via tariff policies since the global financial … as US$43 billion during the crisis period, it explains less than 2 percent of the collapse in world trade …
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