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Briefing paper

Is the WTO Serious About Reducing World Poverty? The Development Agenda for Doha

01/10/2001

2 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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This briefing outlines the issues which the WTO should address if it is to make an effective contribution to poverty reduction in developing countries. The paper, prepared in advance of the Ministerial Conference in Doha, argues that 1) Uruguay Round outcomes were unfair to poor countries, 2) Ministers should therefore commit the WTO to rebalance […]

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Briefing paper

Formula for Fairness: Patient rights before patent rights

05/07/2001

2 documents

49 pages long

Languages: English, French

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The agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) – the new twenty-year patent regime that the World Trade Organization (WTO) requires all member states to implement – is likely to keep prices of vital new medicines higher than they otherwise would be and thereby exacerbate the vast health disparities between rich and poor […]

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Briefing paper

WTO Patent Rules and Access to Medicines: The pressure mounts

01/06/2001

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

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Public outrage over the exorbitant prices of HIV/AIDS drugs in Africa is focussing public attention on the harmful role of global patent rules in blocking poor people’s access to vital medicines. In response to mounting public pressure, World Trade Organisation (WTO) members have taken an unprecedented step in agreeing to hold a special meeting to […]

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Briefing note

Cutting the Cost of Global Health

01/02/2001

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Each year, 11 million people die from infectious diseases, many of them because they cannot afford basic medicines. Countless millions live with debilitating illnesses for the same reason. According to the World Health Organisation some 2 billion people lack access to basic healthcare – most of these people live in developing countries. There are many […]

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Briefing paper

Patent Injustice: How world trade rules threaten the health of poor people

01/02/2001

2 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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This paper shows how new global patent rules, introduced by the World Trade Organisation, will raise the costs of vital medicines, with potentially disastrous implications for poor countries. In brief, these rules require all countries to provide patent protection for a minimum of 20 years for inventions in all fields of technology, including medicines. As […]

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Journal article

The international anti-debt campaign: a Southern activist view for activists in ‘the North’…and ‘the South’

01/08/2000

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

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The growing crisis of external indebtedness in the South has become the focus not only of multilateral policy debate, but also the subject of an increasingly vocal international anti-debt campaign, the influence of which was clear at the abortive World Trade Organisation at Seattle in late 1999. Though effective, the anti-debt campaign encompasses a range […]

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Research report

A Critique of the EC’s WTO Sustainability Impact Assessment Study and Recommendations for Phase III

01/03/2000

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

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In 1999 the European Commission commissioned the University of Manchester to conduct a Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) of the WTO’s proposed Millennium Round. The study aims to develop a methodology for carrying out SIAs and to use this methodology to make a broad assessment of the potential impacts (positive and negative effects) upon the sustainability […]

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Research report

Make Trade Work For The Poor: Position paper on UNCTAD, on the occasion of its Tenth Conference in Bangkok, February 2000

01/02/2000

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

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Position paper on UNCTAD, on the occasion of its Tenth Conference in Bangkok, February 2000. There is an urgent need for UNCTAD to take a lead in promoting new approaches to development that favour poorer people and countries – in part because of the failures of today’s international economic managers. Many governmental organisations still do […]

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Briefing paper

Genetically Modified Crops, World Trade and Food Security

01/11/1999

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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There is a world food crisis. Currently 790 million people are undernourished and around one third of the world’s children go to bed hungry. But their lack of food security is primarily caused by low incomes and unequal access to land, water, credit, and markets. There is no crisis of world food production on the […]

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Journal article

Developing countries in the WTO: support or resist the ‘millennium’ round?

01/11/1999

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

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A fundamental question to be decided at the November/December 1999 World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial meeting is whether to support or resist a new round of trade negotiations. The author argues that while many developing countries, and development NGOs, are right to feel that the earlier Uruguay round produced results skewed in favour of developed […]

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