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To date, there has been little empirical study to date of the effect that TRIPS-Plus intellectual property protection required by American free trade agreements has had on the economies of our trading partners. This paper examines data on foreign direct investment, licensing, employment, sales,...
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This note discusses the medical/therapeutical responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and their “political economy” context. First, the very quick development of several vaccines highlights the richness of the basic knowledge waiting for therapeutical exploitation. Such knowledge has largely...
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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 World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS …
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This Article coins and explains the phenomena of IP nationalism. Just as some nations engage in vaccine nationalism by hoarding limited COVID vaccines, so, too, some nations are hoarding critical knowledge and technology by resisting modification of usual IP rules during the pandemic, such as a...
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Before COVID-19 arrived, policymakers from around the world were busy working on the makings of a new global tax … consensus to reflect structural changes in the world economy as a result of the rise of digitalization. COVID-19 disrupted this … contemporary context for excess profits taxes is fundamentally global today, in a way that excess profit taxation during the world …
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We explore the economic effects of biodiversity loss by developing an ecologically-founded model that captures how …, which depends, among other things, on the distribution of biodiversity losses across ecosystem functions. We discuss how … these fragility measures can help policymakers assess the risks induced by biodiversity loss and prioritize conservation …
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