Is TRIPs Friendly to Development?
40 Pages Posted: 11 Jul 2012
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
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