Bangladesh, a country from the global south recently making a big buzz for its robust economic progress, has fulfilled all the criteria required to graduate to the developing country in the early 2021. In the post 2010 decade, Bangladesh has enacted and revised several laws relating to the...

Intellectual property rights (IPRs) in agriculture makes agriculture a commodity for trade and transforms it from common heritage to private property on making its use restrictive. As a consequence, for securing investment of private individuals, IPRs in agriculture cause hardships to the mass...

Proponents of the TRIPS Agreement hold that IP rights qualify as human rights since they have moral standing and developmental value to assist the enjoyment of other rights. However, the author argues that IP rights take on protectionist trade implications and monopolistic ownership traits...

This article tends to draw out the working procedures of international trade rules regarding trade contract that gets executed between parties located in two different countries. While doing so, the article analyses the existing trade rules and practices, examines their suitability in the...

The article claims that the TRIPS standard-setting i.e. strengthening IPRS in agriculture and pharmaceuticals caries mixed economic prospects and concerns for an agriculture-prone and densely populated least developed country (LDC) like Bangladesh. With the lack of R&D due to low income, the...

This paper exclusively deals with intellectual property rights (IPRs) landscape of the TICFA. It relies on secondary sources and raises questions what the probable consequences the TICFA might bring in the area of intellectual property rights; how the TICFA might affect public health, food...

Traditional knowledge (TK) is the intellectual inventiveness, innovations, and practices of indigenous populations and local communities over generations of living through culturalemanation. The very existence of this knowledge is under the threat of extinction that the western corporate houses...

This paper claims that, though the mass commercialization of traditional knowledge-goods have brought positive changes to the lives of millions of poor female artisans, misappropriation of traditional ingenuity by giant dealers and middlemen have also thwarted huge potentials including...

The importance of having viable corporate governance guidelines has recently become visible in the stock market of Bangladesh when the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has held several factors responsible for non-effectiveness of the stock market. Of them, legal vacuums as...