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Policy Brief 112, 28 June 2022

IPR-related Statistics in WTO Trade Policy Reviews  By Peter Lunenborg The WTO Secretariat Trade Policy Review (TPR) report is an important tool for a WTO Member which synthesizes objective trade-related information in a single document and enables the monitoring of (more...)

SC Statement – TRIPS waiver, 21 June 2022

TRIPS WAIVER: AN INSUFFICIENT MULTILATERAL RESPONSE. TRIPS-CONSISTENT NATIONAL ACTIONS ARE CALLED FOR After almost 20 months from the submission of a “TRIPS waiver” request by India and South Africa, co-sponsored by 65 WTO member States (and supported by more than 100 WTO (more...)

Research Paper 158, 15 June 2022

Twenty Years After Doha: An Analysis of the Use of the TRIPS Agreement’s Public Health Flexibilities in India By Muhammad Zaheer Abbas, PhD   The World Trade Organization (WTO) linked intellectual property protection with trade. The WTO Agreement on Trade-Related (more...)

Research Paper 157, 3 June 2022

WTO Moratorium on Customs Duties on Electronic Transmissions: How much tariff revenue have developing countries lost? By Rashmi Banga This research paper highlights the adverse impacts of the continuing WTO moratorium on customs duties on electronic transmissions on (more...)

Research Paper 156, 1 June 2022

A Tough Call? Comparing Tax Revenues to Be Raised by Developing Countries from the Amount A and the UN Model Treaty Article 12B Regimes By Vladimir Starkov and Alexis Jin In this research paper, we attempt to estimate the tax revenues to be gained (or lost) by the (more...)

SouthViews No. 237, 31 May 2022

Structural Change and the Environment By Calixto Salomão Filho Free-riding and free driving are relevant problems undermining structural transformation in environmental matters. These two different trends of the markets give incentive to opportunistic and (more...)