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It has taken two crises - the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 and the global financial crisis of 2007-2009 - for the international community to seriously focus on the reform of the international financial architecture for crisis prevention, management and resolution. Facing the global...
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This paper seeks to study the institutional aspects of the regulatory reforms undertaken in the telecommunications sector in the European Union. It discusses the core functions of the telecommunications regulatory authorities established by the Member States, as prescribed by EU law, as well as...
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one intended. These include: (2) overregulation can produce underregulation; (2) stringent regulation of new risks can …) redistributive regulation can harm those at the bottom of the economic ladder; (5) disclosure requirements can make people less …
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This is an introduction to a new development in the international arena that poses a threat to the ability of countries to tailor patent and regulatory laws to promote access to medicine. Basically, certain international agreements permit foreign companies to sue a country for compensation if...
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an incentive for private sector self-regulation. Third, a government may affirmatively regulate the new technology or … technology matures or to facilitate private sector self-regulation, and as the technology matures or if self-regulation fails …, government regulation may be appropriate …
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The future is now. According to some, we currently face the inevitability of a post-human world, a world where humans … living systems. Yet there is another aspect of the post-human world that has received less attention: the world where … question is not if, but when will a machine-enhanced reality occur and what will its contours be? For, as with the world of …
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The Declaratory Judgment Act of 1934 was quickly tagged by the U.S. Supreme Court as a simple procedural measure. Whether simple or procedural, the addition of the declaratory judgment option has dramatically increased the rights of would-be defendants. This is of special interest in patent law,...
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Planet earth is host to a dazzling variety of living organisms. This diversity of life, or – biodiversity, is vital to the survival and prosperity of humanity, supplying such vital amenities as food, clothing, shelter, natural biochemicals useful in medicine, industry, and agriculture, and...
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