Patent and trade disparities in developing countries / Srividhya Ragavan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Correlation between patents & development : lessons from history -- The unequals : national realities and patent regimes of the developing world -- The international trade regime in perspective -- The poor nations harmonize -- The missing piece of the trips puzzle : procedural mechanisms -- TRIPS patent regime : the poverty penalty -- Is a substantive regime adequate to generate full compliance : the biotechnology debate -- Dying to dine -the story of the great agricultural barrier -- The debate on plant variety protection -- Harvesting poverty : the PBR story in a subsidy plot -- Biodiversity : the third but ignored paradigm of the trade regime -- Can the trade regime lead to sustainable development?

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In this work, Srividhya Ragavan examines the interaction between trade and intellectual property regimes (using the patent regime in India as the focal point) in an integrated developmental framework to determine how sustainable economic growth can be achieved in developing countries.

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