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Patent-related actions taken in WTO members in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Wu, Xiaoping; Khazin, Bassam Peter - 2020 - Manuscript date: 21 October 2020
COVID-19, caused by SARS-Cov-2, was declared to be a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020. Since …
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The effect of intellectual property rights on domestic innovation in the pharmaceutical sector
Gamba, Simona - 2016
This paper analyses the causal impact of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on pharmaceutical innovation in a panel of 74 countries. The identification strategy exploits the different timing across countries of two sets of IPR reforms. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted...
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Security of Property Rights for Whom?
Lawson-Remer, Terra - 2010
Using a new set of indicators that measure the Property Insecurity of ethnopolitical minority groups, I find that Property Insecurity is not correlated with the Risk of Expropriation facing foreign investors and domestic elites – revealing that the aggregate measures of 'institutional quality'...
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Securing Property Rights
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2016
A central challenge in securing property rights is the subversion of justice through legal skill, bribery, or physical force by the strong — the state or its powerful citizens — against the weak. We present evidence that the less educated and poorer citizens in many countries feel their...
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Paths to Property : Approaches to Institutional Change in International Development
Boudreaux, Karol - 2008
Sub-Saharan Africa has received tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid over the last fifty years yet economic … environments in Africa are both complex and challenging, and the creation of secure property rights is far from a straightforward … process. The authors examine several case studies of property rights reform in the developing world and suggest that universal …
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Security of Property Rights for Whom?
Lawson-Remer, Terra - 2012
Protecting the entitlements of some inherently requires preventing others from claiming and controlling those same resources. Yet much recent research regarding property rights and economic development treats the level of property rights security in a country as homogeneous. This one-dimensional...
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Property Rights and Economic Development
Besley, Timothy J. - 2010
This chapter develops a unified analytical framework, drawing on and extending the existing literature on the subject, for studying the role of property rights in economic development. It addresses two fundamental and related questions concerning the relationship between property rights and...
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Property Rights and Economic Development
Lee, Yong-Shik - 2021
Formal private property rights (“FPPRs”) have been advocated as an important prerequisite to economic development: a legal right to property ownership motivates economic players to engage in economic activities when these activities yield property interests, and this, in turn, contributes to...
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Trips and Trade Liberalization : The Pursuit of Universal Development
Allen, Jessica - 2018
the World Trade Organization might collectively pursue trade liberalization and support innovation, in a global trading …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012913601
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Impact of the Patent Right Regime on Access to Medicine in Developing Countries
Adeyele, Josephine - 2018
The exclusivity of the right conferred on a patent right holder operates as a temporary monopoly because competition by the production of the same invention or the adoption of an incentive process, without the permission of the right holder, is prohibited for the period that the patent right...
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