The focus of this paper is India. In line with TRIPS India has introduced a product patent regime in pharmaceuticals … from 1 January, 2005. WIll this lead increase in resources deveoted to R and D by Indian companies for the development of … new drugs more suited to the needs of India and other developing countries? Can the innovation capabilities be utilized …

food security of millions of households. Total rice production losses exceeded 2 million tons—about 10 percent of annual …. Government food transfers to poor households also limited the impact of the flood on household access to food. This paper sheds …