Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement And Its Impact On Accessibility And Affordability Of Medicines: A Meta-Synthesis

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...

the geopolitics of afghanistan after september 11, 2001, and its impact on iranian national security

abstract u.s. attack to afghanistan after 9/11 provided opportunities for us who tried to become the dominant power after collapse of ussr and bipolar world. thinkers like fukuyama believed american liberal democrats thought would be universally accepted without resistances. liberal democracy is the best and final model of governance; in this regard, united state has moral responsibilities for...

an investigation of the impact of self monitoring on langauge teachers motivational practice and its effect on learners motivation

the central purpose of this study was to conduct a case study about the role of self monitoring in teacher’s use of motivational strategies. furthermore it focused on how these strategies affected students’ motivational behavior. although many studies have been done to investigate teachers’ motivational strategies use (cheng & d?rnyei, 2007; d?rnyei & csizer, 1998; green, 2001, guilloteaux & d?...

The impact of Trans‐Pacific Partnership agreement on the Canadian economy

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...