WTO

Healthy advice to pharma companies

a group of 12 European institutional investors has come out with a prescription for the international pharmaceutical industry, exhorting the latter to provide developing countries with easier access

Publication Date:

29/04/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Health Effects, WTO, Drug Industry, Finance, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Developing Countries

Biodiversity

Why the US is such a bully

US attempts to kill of global democracy are getting more commonplace than ever. In such a political climate, it is impossible to talk about global rights to common property resources, equity and social justice

Publication Date:

29/04/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20030430

pp:

0

Tags:

Convention On Biological Diversity (CBD), POPs, Common Property Resources, Global Warming, Trade, WTO, Kyoto Protocol, Biodiversity, Subsidies, Legislation, NGO, War, China, Pakistan, Russia, United States Of America (US), Developing Countries, Iraq, European Union (EU)

India

Damage control

On February 26, 2003, a World Trade Organisation (wto) body granted concessions that would allow its members to regulate trade in

Publication Date:

30/03/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20030331

pp:

0

Tags:

Trade, WTO, Exports, Africa

India

US to repeal Byrd Amendment following WTO ruling

A recent ruling by the World Trade Organization (WTO) would require the US to repeal the controversial

Publication Date:

27/02/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

WTO, Subsidies, Legislation, United States Of America (US), European Union (EU)

India

Bt by Bt assessment

On November 10, 2002, people wearing Bollgard caps visited cotton farmer R Narsimha Reddy at his home in Aleru, a village in Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh. Bollgard cotton Bt cotton is Monsanto s proprietary gene technology developed to defend the pest pro

Publication Date:

27/02/2003

Author(s): Nityanand Jayaraman

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20030228

pp:

0

Tags:

Cotton, WTO, Genetic Resources, Crop Biodiversity, Genetic Engineering, Research Agencies, India, Andhra Pradesh

Biodiversity

US plan to settle WTO disputes

dispute settlement under the World Trade Organisation (wto) rules has been fraught with disagreements. The us has now put forth a proposal to grant countries that are parties to the dispute more

Publication Date:

14/02/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Marine Fisheries, Trade, WTO, Europe, Germany, United Kingdom (UK), United States Of America (US), Peru, Developing Countries, European Union (EU)

Environment

Unhealthy ways

Poor countries can still not access cheap medicines

Publication Date:

30/12/2002

Author(s): Pranay Lal

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20021231

pp:

0

Tags:

WTO, Finance, Patents, Developing Countries

India

Devil is in the details

A WTO meeting of ministers is hailed as a success

Publication Date:

14/12/2002

Author(s): Neelam Singh

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Trade, WTO, Malaria, Health Care, Drugs, Drug Industry, Tuberculosis, AIDS, Imports, Australia, India, Developing Countries

Air Pollution

Playing knowledge games

INFORMATION FEUDALISM . Peter Drahos with John Braithwaite . Earthscan Publications Limited . London . 2002 . Rs 920 In the last two decades, the intellectual property standards have changed

Publication Date:

29/11/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

WTO, AIDS, GATT, Patents, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Africa, Global, Developing Countries

Poverty