The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, intellectual property and medicines: Differential outcomes for developed and developing countries

Trans-Pacific Partnership Provisions in Intellectual Property, Transparency, and Investment Chapters Threaten Access to Medicines in the US and Elsewhere

Brook Baker describes the potential harms to global health from the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement and its failure to balance the interests of patients and the public with those of industry.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: a threat to affordable medicines and public health

PhRMA has long criticized medicines insurance schemes premised on cost-effectiveness and reference pricing such as the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) in Australia and PHARMAC in New Zealand. The PhRMA submission to the USTR on the TTPA specifically targets alleged ‘market access barriers... inadequate consultative mechanisms and transparency concerns in countries like New Zealand’6. But t...

Intellectual Property and Health in Developing Countries

The Trans-pacific Partnership Agreement: Some Critical Concerns

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) involves twelve Pacific Rim economies of varying sizes and structures. Although often portrayed as a free trade agreement, the TPPA can, at best, be expected to deliver paltry overall growth gains from trade liberalization. The much higher figures touted by TPPA advocates are largely due to dubious ‘non-trade measures’, most of which have been reje...

The Economics of Intellectual Property Rights under Imperfect Enforcement: Developing Countries, Biotechnology, and the Trips Agreement

EPTD Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results, and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that most Discussion Papers will eventually be published in some other form, and that their content may also be revised. THE ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS UNDER IMPERFECT ENFORCEMENT: DEVELOPING...