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Does The New WTO Drugs Deal Really Benefit Developing Countries?
C.P. Chandrasekhar & Jayati Ghosh.

On the 30th of August, just before the negotiating teams at the WTO in Geneva went back to their countries to prepare for the ministerial meeting at Cancun, the deadlock over intellectual property and public health was finally broken. The TRIPs Council agreed on legal changes that are officially supposed to make it easier for poorer countries to import cheaper generics made under compulsory licensing if they are unable to manufacture the medicines themselves.

September 9, 2003.

 
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