Ivermectin (or Mectizan trade mark ) is widely used by onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis control programs worldwide. Generally, Mectizan trade mark is both safe and well tolerated. An exception to this general pattern is in some areas co-endemic for Onchocerca volvulus and Loa loa, where a number of severe adverse reactions to Mectizan trade mark have been noted in L. loa infected individ...

This paper develops an index of allocative effi ciency that depends upon the distribution of mark-ups across goods and is separable from an index of standard Ricardian gains from trade. It determines how changes in trade frictions affect allocative efficiency in an oligopoly model of international trade, decomposing the effect into the cost-change channel and the price-change channel. Formulas ...

2022 has been another remarkable year for trade mark law in China. It is notable that the country climbed rankings of Global Innovation Index (GII) 2022. The figures released by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) recently have revealed China 11th place 2022, up from 10th 2021. This particularly impressive as it rise rankings, bringing into top 36 upper-middle-income bracket economi...