Interpreting and Implementing the TRIPS Agreement

Edited by Justin Malbon and Charles Lawson

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Abstract: This book considers whether the WTO agreement on ‘Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights’ (TRIPS) will become a vehicle for promoting greater international equity and engagement with the world economy or a tool for wealthy nations to extract excessive rents from poorer countries. Can TRIPS garner the necessary degree of legitimacy and public trust to deliver economic development? Can it become a key instrument for promoting international health and development? In response to these questions, the book proposes interpretive possibilities for the TRIPS’ text along with implementation strategies to avoid the threat of its irrelevancy due, amongst other things, to free trade agreements containing TRIPS-plus terms.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Law - Academic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
ISBN: 9781847201447
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