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Briefing paper

Make Trade Fair in the Americas: Agriculture, Investment and Intellectual Property: Three reasons to say no to the FTAA

01/01/2003

3 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish

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While poverty, inequality and the concentration of wealth persist in Latin America and the Caribbean, trade and investment agreements are being promoted that would seriously limit the possibilities of development and poverty eradication in the countries of the region. The Free Trade Area of the Americas is an agreement that would favor the interests of […]

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Briefing note

The Challenge to the EU: Stop the Sugar Dumping!

14/11/2002

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

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The recent challenges mounted by Brazil and Australia at the WTO over the EU’ss implicit and explicit sugar export subsidies have raised fundamental questions about reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy.

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Briefing paper

US Bullying on Drug Patents: One year after Doha

01/11/2002

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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One year after WTO trade ministers agreed the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health, the US government, at the behest of giant pharmaceutical companies, continues to bully developing countries to introduce unnecessarily high standards of patent protection on medicines. This continued bilateral pressure restricts and delays the production of cheaper generic medicines, with potentially […]

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Briefing paper

Boxing Match in Agricultural Trade: Will WTO negotiations knock out the worlds poorest farmers?

01/11/2002

2 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Agricultural trade could play a key role in the fight against poverty. But in practice the rules which govern world agricultural trade benefit the rich rather than the poor. Rich countries spend vast sums of money protecting the interests of their producers, while at the same time forcing poor countries to open their markets to […]

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Briefing paper

TRIPS and Public Health: The next battle

01/03/2002

1 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English

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The Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health agreed at the WTO Ministerial in Doha in November 2001 was an important step forward in the campaign for affordable medicines. It affirmed the primacy of public health over intellectual property rights, and the rights of governments to make full use of the public health safeguards in TRIPS. […]

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Journal article

Trade liberalisation in the garment industry: who is really benefiting?

01/02/2002

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

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World trade is increasingly conditioned by the rules of the World Trade Organisation. In the case of the garment industry this means the phasing out of the Multifibre Arrangement, which has dominated trade in textiles and garments since 1974. This phase-out is seen as benefiting developing countries and criticism focuses on the manner in which […]

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Research report

Bilateralism in Intellectual Property

04/12/2001

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper examines the way in which bilateral trade negotiations (Bilateral Investment Treaties and Bilateral Intellectual Property Agreements) are being used by the USA and others to build more extensive protection for intellectual property than that set out in the WTO TRIPS Agreement. It uses examples of recent US/EU negotiations with countries such as Nicaragua, […]

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Briefing paper

Eight Broken Promises: Why the WTO isn’t working for the worlds poor

01/10/2001

2 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Hypocrisy and double standards characterise the behaviour of industrialised countries towards poorer countries in world trade. This briefing paper identifies eight broken promises made by the rich to the poor. At the forthcoming World Trade Organisation summit in Doha, the biggest global meeting on trade since Seattle, WTO members must end the cycle of broken […]

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Issue briefing

Open Letter On Institutional Reforms in the WTO

01/10/2001

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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For several months now, the WTO has been preparing for its first Ministerial meeting since the debacle in Seattle in 1999. However, current processes and procedures illustrate that the systemic inequalities and imbalances – which were so graphically exposed in Seattle – remain to be acted upon. WTO processes and negotiations are dominated by a […]

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Briefing paper

Priced Out of Reach: How WTO patent policies will reduce access to medicines in the developing world

01/10/2001

1 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English

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The forthcoming WTO summit offers an unparalleled opportunity to change global patent rules, known as the TRIPS agreement, so that vital medicines are not priced out of reach of people living in poverty. Unfortunately, the US government is opposing the developing-country call for TRIPS to be clarified and interpreted in favour of public health. Oxfam […]

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