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The Domestic Politics of TRIPs: Pharmaceutical Interests, Public Health, and NGO Influence in India (2003)
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@MISC{Das03thedomestic,
author = {Keshab Das},
title = {The Domestic Politics of TRIPs: Pharmaceutical Interests, Public Health, and NGO Influence in India},
year = {2003}
}
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Abstract
Paper Prepared for the Research Project on ‘Linking the WTO to the Poverty-Reduction Agenda’ This paper examines some of the political implications of the coming into force, in 2004, of provisions of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). These will have serious implications for India’s pharmaceutical industry, as well as for the political environment within which pro-poor policy change can be effected. In anticipation of the 2004 deadline, various actors (in business, government and activist circles) have been positioning themselves to respond to the perceived challenges. The historical backdrop to this change is an important contextual feature: operating within India’s homegrown patent system – which covers not the product itself, but only the process by which it was made – India’s pharmaceutical industry managed, over the course of several decades, to make the country self-sufficient in the production of a considerable range of drugs, and (crucially for the poor) to make them widely available at affordable prices. The WTO provisions now coming into force are likely to have different
Keyphrases
ngo influence pharmaceutical interest domestic politics public health india pharmaceutical industry various actor homegrown patent system important contextual feature affordable price poverty-reduction agenda world trade organization considerable range paper prepared political environment serious implication pro-poor policy change political implication trade related aspect several decade historical backdrop intellectual property right country self-sufficient activist circle research project wto provision
