There is often a gap between promises made politically and the will to implement these promises meaningfully. One example is Canada's Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR). CAMR was enacted following a WTO decision that changed global intellectual property rules, allowing countries to issue compulsory licences for the production and export of domestically patented medicines to countries without pha...

We examine antitrust rules in a two county general equilibrium trade model, contrasting national and multilateral (cooperative) determination of competition policy, exploring the properties of policy equilibrium. It is not imperfect competition, but variation in competitive stance between sectors that matters for trading partners. Beggar-thy-neighbor competition policies relate to countries’ co...

The concept paper for HDR 2001 starts thus: “New technologies – especially biotechnology and information/communication technology – are the driving forces of competition between nations and people in the global knowledge economy of the 21 century. Access to and a share in the financial returns from technology will be an important determinant of whether an individual or a country is a winner or ...

The structure of the Hungarian agriculture should be changed before the EU accession. The new structure should fill the requirements of the EU and beside this it should produce competitive products. Unconventional products (mushroom, fish, honey etc.) have a lot of advantages: they can be produced in small farms, their trade is mainly free of regulations and their market is almost unlimited. Th...

Taiwan economy has always been export-oriented, creating tightly-linked industrial chains between cross-straits companies tightly. Understanding the influence of transforming industrial patterns of major economic entities would be critical for long-term cooperative small economic entities (countries or regions) in the periphery. The author of this paper has thus analyzed the influences and ...

Corn cultivation in the United States is expected to increase to meet demand for ethanol. Nitrogen leaching from fertilized corn fields to the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River system is a primary cause of the bottom-water hypoxia that develops on the continental shelf of the northern Gulf of Mexico each summer. In this study, we combine agricultural land use scenarios with physically based models ...

For countries like Ethiopia, agriculture is a backbone. The country’s most economic activities depend on agriculture. Agricultural commodities account for half of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). However, factors like poor infrastructure, traditional techniques used for farming, periodic drought, and soil degradation have been the main obstacles for not projecting the export income, and also f...

abstract the main purpose of this research was the analysis of economic effects of fish farming pools establishment in ardal county of chaharemahal and bakhtiyari province. this research was a sort of survey search measure and a questionnaire was compiled for collecting of data. statistical society of this study was included of 171 fish farming units that 75 units were chosen by random sampling...

Taiwan economy has always been export-oriented, creating tightly-linked industrial chains between cross-straits companies tightly. Understanding the influence of transforming industrial patterns of major economic entities would be critical for long-term cooperative small economic entities (countries or regions) in the periphery. The author of this paper has thus analyzed the influences and ...

abstract iran is among the country that despite the possession of valuable natural resources does not placed in developed countries. expansion of agricultural exports through the development of rural areas, reducing poverty and exclusion zones, in the process of economic development plays a key role. the export of horticultural products can have a positive impact on agricultural development. in...