Access to Essential Medicines in Developing Countries: Does the WTO TRIPs Agreement Hinder It?
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Biographical notes: Jayashree Watal is a Fellow of the Indian Council for Research in International Economic Research, New Delhi, and Visiting Fellow of the Institute for International Economics, Washington DC. She was Director, Trade Policy Division, Ministry of Commerce, New Delhi. Watal was responsible for TRIPS negotiations in the Uruguay Round from 1989-91. She has recently completed a comprehensive study, Intellectual Property Rights in the World Trade Organization: The Way Forward for Developing Countries, to be published in 2000 by Oxford University Press and Kluwer Law International.
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