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  • The Journey to the WIPO Treaty on Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge

    Policy, Process and People

    by Wend Wendland ...
    This book recounts the colourful and eventful journey to the landmark WIPO Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge, from the proposal for a new patent disclosure requirement in 1999 to the adoption of the Treaty 25 years later. Offering a first-person account from his unique position as having been a Director at WIPO and responsible for the ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    by Susy Frankel, Daniel J. Gervais ...
    Series series Elgar Advanced Introductions series
    A lucid and accessible explanation of international intellectual property law. The authors do not shrink from the complexities and nuances of the field but manage commendably to present them as a part of a coherent system.'- Graeme B. Dinwoodie, University of Oxford, UK'Written by two of the foremost scholars in trade and intellectual property, this book offers a clear and comprehensive overview ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Global Health In Practice: Investing Amidst Pandemics, Denial Of Evidence, And Neo-dependency

    by Olusoji Adeyi, Dean T Jamison ...
    Series Book 6 - World Scientific Series In Health Investment And Financing
    The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the world's vulnerabilities to health and economic ruin from disease outbreaks. But the pandemic merely reveals fundamental weaknesses and contradictions in global health. What are the roots of discontents in global health? How do geo-politics, power dynamics, knowledge gaps, racism, and corruption affect global health? Is foreign aid for health due for a ... Read more

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  • Access to Medicines and Vaccines

    Implementing Flexibilities Under Intellectual Property Law

    Edited by Carlos M. Correa, Reto M. Hilty ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This open access book is the outcome of a Global Forum on Innovation, Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines held in December 2019 at the Max Plank Instititute in Munich, organised by the South Centre and the Max Plank Institute. The academics and experts from international organisations participating have contributed chapters to this book. The book is for policy makers (in Ministries of ... Read more

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  • Vaccines, Medicines and COVID-19

    How Can WHO Be Given a Stronger Voice?

    by Germán Velásquez ...
    This open access book is a collection of research papers on COVID-19 by Germán Velásquez from 2020 and early 2021 that help to answer the question: How can an agency like the World Health Organization (WHO) be given a stronger voice to exercise authority and leadership?The considerable health, economic and social challenges that the world faced at the beginning of 2020 with COVID-19 continued and ... Read more

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  • Intellectual Property and Public Health in the Developing World

    by Monirul Azam ...
    Across the world, developing countries are attempting to balance the international standards of intellectual property concerning pharmaceutical patents against the urgent need for accessible and affordable medicines. In this timely and necessary book, Monirul Azam examines the attempts of several developing countries to walk this fine line. He evaluates the experiences of Brazil, China, India, and ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Development Dance

    How Donors and Recipients Negotiate the Delivery of Foreign Aid

    by Haley J. Swedlund ...
    In a book full of directly applicable lessons for policymakers, Haley J. Swedlund explores why foreign aid is delivered in different ways at different times, and why various approaches prove to be politically unsustainable. She finds that no aid-delivery mechanism has yet resolved commitment problems in the donor-recipient relationship; bargaining compromises break down and have to be renegotiated ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Global War on Tobacco

    Mapping the World's First Public Health Treaty

    by Heather Wipfli ...
    "A major contribution not just to tobacco control research but also to research on global governance and public health . . . thorough [and] compelling." —Frank J. Chaloupka IV, Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois–ChicagoAs the era of globalization progressed, the tobacco industry capitalized on its elements—including trade liberalization, foreign direct investment, and ... Read more

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  • Food Safety Standards in International Trade

    The Case of the EU and the COMESA

    by Onsando Osiemo ...
    Food safety has become a major concern for consumers in the developed world and Europe in particular. This has been highlighted by the recent spate of food scares ranging from the BSE (mad cow) crisis to Chinese melamine contamination of baby formula. To ensure food safety throughout Europe, stringent food safety standards have been put in place ‘from farm to fork’. At the same time, poor African ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The World Trade System

    Trends and Challenges

    Edited by Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Pravin Krishna, Arvind Panagariya ...
    Leading trade esperts examine the world trading system today, from the multilateralism of the WTO to explosive bilateralism and the mega-regionals TPP and TTIP.When the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) metamorphosed into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1994, it seemed that the third pillar of the international economic superstructure was finally in place. And yet with the ... Read more

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  • Revitalizing the World Trading System

    by Alan Wm. Wolff ...
    In recent years, the world trading system has been confronted by a range of new and developing challenges: the risk of climate change, the instability of the digital economy, the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 and the threat of future pandemics, to name but a few. In this book, veteran trade negotiator, Ambassador Alan Wm. Wolff, draws from his years of experience at the World Trade Organization to ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Imposing Standards

    The North-South Dimension to Global Tax Politics

    by Martin Hearson ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Money
    In Imposing Standards**, Martin Hearson shifts the focus of political rhetoric regarding international tax rules from tax havens and the Global North to the damaging impact of this regime on the Global South.** Even when not exploited by tax dodgers, international tax standards place severe limits on the ability of developing countries to tax businesses, denying the Global South access to much ... Read more

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