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success of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is a regulatory approach that includes rules designed, and tested in practice … reform of the rules and institutions governing finance and trade in the global economy, and the role the WTO should play in …
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investment treaty arbitration to cover a wide range of sovereign investments, host governments might have to revisit key …
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international trade and investment law. It involves analysis in this context of WTO multilaterals and U.S. bilaterals in relation to …
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Despite the emphasis of international IP treaties, such as the TRIPS Agreement, on common minimum IP standards, considerable diversity exists among developing countries regarding the nature and scope of IP standards, approaches to administration and enforcement, and the responsiveness of...
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) is the … scholarly effort to explain the variation in TRIPS implementation across the full spectrum of the WTO's developing country …
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Against the backdrop of the concomitant food, financial and economic, and climatic crises, African countries continue to negotiate the challenging Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the European Union (EU). While these new agreements have the potential to help African countries...
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This article discusses the place of both the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) and … between the WTO and the ECT into account by providing extensive guidelines on incorporation of WTO rules into the Treaty. This … uncertainties remain. Moreover, developments in the past two decades, such as changes in membership to both the ECT and WTO …
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In 1997, the Lima Declaration against Corruption made the first institutional cry to the World Trade Organization (WTO … objectives of the WTO. This article shows that, since 2012, the WTO has increasingly adopted a more clear-cut approach to this … settlement system. The revised text of the Government Procurement Agreement, the Trade Facilitation Agreement, and recent WTO …
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The approach taken by developing countries to intellectual property (IP) decision-making varies widely. This variation raises several questions: How do politics at the national level impact the prospects for development-oriented IP reforms? What kind of institutional frameworks would best ensure...
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The success of the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Development Agenda will depend upon reforms to the agency's governance. At the 2007 WIPO General Assemblies, several of the recommendations on the Development Agenda adopted by member states specifically alluded to the need for...
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