Is TRIPs Friendly to Development?

40 Pages Posted: 11 Jul 2012

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Afshan Basharat

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Date Written: July 10, 2012

Abstract

TRIPs Agreement introduced intellectual property rights (IPRs) into the multilateral trading system for the first time during the Uruguay Round of world trade negotiations. However, TRIPs is at crossroad, pushed by one force from developed countries calling for higher standard of IPRs and the other for integrating more social development concerns. Should TRIPs and WTO care about issues other than promoting trade liberalization? This paper discusses the relationship between TRIPs and whether it promotes development.

Keywords: TRIPS, Developing Countries, Development, WIPO, Intellectual Property

JEL Classification: K10, K29, K39, K49

Suggested Citation

Basharat, Afshan, Is TRIPs Friendly to Development? (July 10, 2012). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2103319 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2103319

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