[Ip-health] Why no states used WTO scheme for CL ? Research paper (Monash Uni, AUS)

[Rachel Kiddell-Monroe]

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Received from Robynn Sturm (UAEM) via her law professor, John Simon at Yale.

In its first decade of existence, the World Trade Organization has been
consistently pilloried by elements of civil society as undemocratic,
indifferent to the needs of the poor and rigged in favour of rich countries.
Among the aspects of the WTO most frequently criticised are the perceived
lack of transparency in the decision making process and the tolerance of
protectionist barriers in sectors that are important to developing countries
- particularly agriculture and textiles - while liberalisation of other
sectors is mandated. However, the most effective criticism of the WTO's
social effects in its first ten years, in terms of public consciousness and
momentum for change, has undoubtedly been the charge that the intellectual
property rules mandated by the WTO result in essential, life-saving
medicines being denied to impoverished people in areas hit by epidemic
disease, particularly AIDS.


"When Nobody Comes to the Party: Why Have No States Used the WTO Scheme for
Compulsory Licensing of Essential
Medicines?"<http://hq.ssrn.com/Journals/RedirectClick.cfm?url=http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1076082&partid=87069&did=22633&eid=32808440>
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The New Zealand Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 3, pp. 69-100, 2006
Monash University Legal Studies Research Paper No.
2006/35<http://hq.ssrn.com/Journals/RedirectClick.cfm?url=http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/PIP_Journal.cfm?pip_jrnl=1004491&partid=87069&did=22633&eid=32808440>

ADAM MCBETH<http://hq.ssrn.com/Journals/RedirectClick.cfm?url=http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=819210&partid=87069&did=22633&eid=32808440>,
Monash University - Faculty of Law
Email: adam.mcbeth@law.monash.edu.au
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