This paper critically analyzes the operations and effectiveness of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Working Group on Trade and Transfer of Technology (WGTTT). Despite the establishment of the WGTTT in 2001 with a mandate to enhance technology flows to developing countries, the Group has...

This paper examines the background of Article 66.2 of the TRIPS Agreement, the nature of this obligation on developed country Members that pertains to the promotion of technology transfer to LDC Members and how it is being implemented and how such implementation is being monitored in the TRIPS...

Technology transfer is deeply embedded in the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement). Several provisions address technology transfer, which constitute an essential part of the efforts made by the TRIPS negotiators to strike a balance between the...

Schonungslose Kritik des aus Uganda stammenden Ökonomen und politischen Aktivisten am Kapitalismus, dessen internationale Spielregeln in der Welthandelsorganisation WTO von den mächtigen Staaten des Westens vorgegeben und global durchgesetzt werden. (2)

Despite the intended support of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights for the dissemination and transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies to developing countries, Agreement has been criticized by developing countries for actually impeding the access and...