In 2002, a number of associations requested the Korean Patent Office to issue a compulsory license for the manufacture of a drug under the Korean patent provision which permits the issue of compulsory licensing for public non-commercial use. This provision in the Korean patent act was introduced...

The monopoly granted through intellectual property rights can lead to abuses of such monopoly. The TRIPS Agreement recognizes such abuses along with the fact that competition policy can play a significant role in dealing with such abuses. The use of competition policy to deal with the abuse of...

The recent economic performance of the Vietnamese economy during its recent transition to a market economy has been remarkable, with significant progress having been made in terms of real GDP growth, savings and investment, inflation and export growth to name but a few.

The main objective of this paper is to understand whether there is a long-term relationship between Australia and Colombian imports by using macroeconomic fundamentals such as the real exchange rate, income, population and openness. We use multivariate cointegration techniques and error...

History has always been important for the labour movement in defining its identity. Partly of this reason the institutions of the labour movement have placed great emphasis on recording their participation in labour history.