Background We present a systematic review describing ex-ante and ex-post evaluations of
the impacts of intellectual property provisions in trade treaties on access to medicine in low …

The pharmaceutical sector has unusual prominence in debates about IP policy, and has
served as the front line for national and international controversies about the relationship …

Purpose This paper aims to analyze the firm level determinants of profitability of Indian drug
and pharmaceutical industry which is known for historically weak R&D initiatives …

This book examines the impact of economic reforms in India on the pharmaceutical industry
and access to medicines. It traces the changing production and trade pattern of the industry …

This paper empirically analyses entry by generic firms into the strictly regulated Spanish
pharmaceutical market. We estimate a fixed effects negative binomial entry model using a …

Jordan dramatically strengthened the level of intellectual property protection it provides for
pharmaceutical products in consequence of joining the World Trade Organization in 2000 …

COVID-19 has been the deadliest pandemic since the Spanish flu of 1918–1920. While
people in the twentieth century had to wait for the pandemic to run its course before life …

The question posed in this article is whether the right to health and patents conflict or
coexist. This question is examined from the perspective of the issue of access to affordable …

Since the introduction of Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in
1995, there has been considerable concern that poor access to essential medicines in …

The subject of this dissertation is the issue of access, or lack thereof, of medicines for
patients in developing countries. The argument often made in that regard is that patent …