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In 2005, as the result of a World Trade Organization mandate, India began to implement product patents for … pharmaceuticals that were compliant with the 1995 Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). We combine … pharmaceutical product sales data for India with a newly gathered dataset of molecule-linked patents issued by the Indian patent …
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Under the TRIPS agreement, WTO members are required to enforce product patents for pharmaceuticals. The debate about … pharmaceuticals will result in substantially higher prices for medicines, with adverse consequences for the health and well-being of … these claims. Central to the ongoing debate is the structure of demand for pharmaceuticals in poor economies where, because …
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curves for health products in Kenya, Guatemala, India, and Uganda and test whether (1) information about health risk, (2 …
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pharmaceutical trade data from 1996 to 2005, we examine the role of China and India as suppliers of medicines to other middle- and … medicines from high- income countries. We find that imports of antibiotics and unspecified medicaments from India and China … significantly depress the average price of these commodities imported from high-income trading partners, suggesting that India and …
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tuberculosis drug samples that claim to be made in India and were sold in Africa, India, and five mid-income non-African countries … in India or non-African countries. Since this finding is robust for manufacturer-drug fixed effects, one likely …
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market countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), adding constraints that reflect a central bank%u2019s desire to hold a …
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Consensus forecasts for the global economy over the medium and long term predict the world's economic gravity will … substantially shift towards Asia and especially towards the Asian Giants, China and India. While such forecasts may pan out, there … are substantial reasons that China and India may grow much less rapidly than is currently anticipated. Most importantly …
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cycle. Finally, recent policy initiatives suggest that India is poised to replace China as the dominant periphery country …
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This paper analyzes whether commodity futures prices traded in the United States reveal information relevant to stock prices of East Asian economies including China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. We find significant and positive predictive powers of overnight futures returns of...
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, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract …This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk … volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic Indian users of oDesk in other countries around the world. We find …
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