Sisule F. Musungu – The World Trade Organization (WTO) has launched a discussion forum for the 2012 World Trade Report. The 2012 Report will focus on”Looking beyond international cooperation on tariffs”. The aim of the discussion forum is to encourage debate on the topic of the Report and researchers, policy-makers and others interested in the topic are invited to submit short articles (of no more than 1,000 words) on the topic and/or to submit views on the articles submitted by others. WTO Secretariat staff Marc Bacchetta and Cosimo Beverelli have done a short paper providing background to the Report’s theme. The topic for the 2011 Report was “The WTO and preferential trade agreements: from co-existence to coherence”.
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Discussion Forum for the World Trade Report 2012
Thursday, December 8th, 2011MSF Launches an Ideas Contest on Revising TRIPS
Thursday, July 28th, 2011Sisule F. Musungu – Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Access to Medicines Campaign has launched an Ideas Contest on the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary (November 2011) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health. The main question being asked is whether the TRIPS Agreement can be reformed to meet public health needs. An interesting question. Looking forward to seeing the winning entries.
Access to medicines: possible boost from a new balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011Daniele Dionisio - New to IQsensato’s Guest Papers section is a short paper entitled Access to medicines: possible boost from a new balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region contributed by myself (Member, European Parliament Working Group on Innovation, Access to Medicines and Poverty-Related Diseases).
Training for Research on Development – IDRC Internship Awards for 2011
Thursday, June 24th, 2010Sisule F. Musungu – The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has an interesting call out for internship awards for 2011. The purpose of these internships is to provide exposure to research for international development through research management and grant administration. The internship scheme is targetted at developing country or Canadian nationals. The deadline for applications is 12th September 2010 for the internships scheduled to start in January 2011.
Stuck in the First Gear: Moving Forward the Discussion on International Transfer of Technology – Part II
Saturday, February 6th, 2010Robinson Esalimba – One of the renowned American inventors from the last century and former head of research at General Motors, Charles Kettering, was famous for his snazzy quotes and sound bites. One of my favourites is; “A problem well stated, is a problem half solved.” I couldn’t agree more. In the first part of my post on Stuck in the First Gear, I suggested that the draft WIPO proposal on Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer (CDIP/4/7) which is up for discussion at the fifth session of the Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) from April 26 to 30, 2010; is unlikely, as currently framed, to move forward the discussion on transfer of technology. This is because the problem has not been well stated.
