STRADE MEASURES ON PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS: CAN THEY PROMOTE LOCAL PRODUCTION AND PUBLIC HEALTH?

Padmashree Gehl Sampath ()
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Padmashree Gehl Sampath: Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal, 2022, vol. 29, issue 2, 47-69

Abstract: The rise in trade measures on pharmaceutical products has become a matter of intense debate since the start of the COVID-19 crisis. By October 2022, more than140 export restrictions had been placed on them worldwide; at least 50 directly affected vaccine production and distribution. A systematic assessment of their welfare effects offers a way to classify the plethora of trade measures in the global pharmaceutical sector with an explanation of their use in different jurisdictions worldwide. It also provides an assessment and indicates advances on ways in which such trade measures can be used in the interest of local production and public health.

Keywords: local production; trade measures; tariffs; non-tariff measures; industrial policy; access to medicines; government policy; intellectual property rights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I11 I15 I18 L11 L23 L52 O25 O34 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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