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Nursing the big boys
As international patent standards come into force in India, its widely hailed pharmaceutical industry is facing turbulence that will likely dramatically raise the price of medicine, at least for the short term.
Abhayraj Naik | Oct 01, 2006
Defocusing, from health to trade
A review of 'The WTO and India's Pharmaceuticals Industry: Patent protection, TRIPS and developing countries' by Sudip Chaudhuri.
Hari Roka | Aug 01, 2006
WTO’s changing architecture
The ‘developing’ and ‘least developed’ countries have evolved a two-pronged approach: to keep fighting for their due rights and tariffs within the WTO; and create various safety nets in the form of bilateral and regional …
A S Panneerselvan | Jan 22, 2006
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