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Fair Followers: Expanding Access to Generic Pharmaceuticals for Low- and Middle-Income Populations
Kevin Outterson
Boston University School of Law
THE POWER OF PILLS, Jillian Clare Cohen, Patricia Illingworth, Udo Schuklenk, eds., University of Michigan Press, 2005
Abstract:
On innovation grounds, pharmaceutical patents are unnecessary in low income populations, since such markets cannot do much to support global pharmaceutical profits. The public health needs of low income populations require patented drugs to be manufactured at the marginal cost of production, without R&D cost recovery. Nonrivalrous access to pharmaceutical knowledge achieves both goals simultaneously.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 16
Keywords: pharmaceutical, pricing, patents, innovation, nonrivalrous, access, developing countries, low income countries
JEL Classification: H41, H51, I18, K11, K19, K32, K33
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Date posted: June 17, 2006
Suggested CitationOutterson, Kevin, Fair Followers: Expanding Access to Generic Pharmaceuticals for Low- and Middle-Income Populations. THE POWER OF PILLS, Jillian Clare Cohen, Patricia Illingworth, Udo Schuklenk, eds., University of Michigan Press, 2005. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=908586 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.667323
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