Literature survey on intellectual property rights and sustainable human development
Research Tool
This version of the literature survey updates and expands a working draft produced in ugust 2000 as part of a project funded by the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID). It will continue to be updated as part of a Project on TRIPS and Development Capacity Building being implemented by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) secretariat (Project Number INT/OT/1BH) and the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and sponsored by the Department of International Development (DFID UK).
The broad aim of the TRIPS and Development Capacity Building Project is to improve the understanding of TRIPS-related issues among developing countries and to assist them in building their capacity for ongoing as well as future negotiations on intellectual property rights. Activities undertaken as part of the Project include:
• Production of a Policy Discussion paper to inform and encourage policy discussion on the impact of intellectual property rights on development with particular focus on the TRIPS Agreement.
• A Resource Book aimed mainly at negotiators and policy-makers from developing countries providing a step-by-step elaboration of the issues pertinent to the on-going as well as future negotiations in TRIPS and intellectual property related matters in general.
• A web-based portal to matters concerns IPRs and Development (http://www.ictsd.org/iprsonline/)
For more information about the project please contact:
Pedro Roffe, Project Director,
UNCTAD, Palais des Nations, CH-1211, Geneva 10.
Fax: +41 22 917 0043;
e-mail: pedro.roffe@unctad.org
http://www.ictsd.org/unctad-ictsd/
NB This literature survey does not claim to be definitive. Readers are encouraged to submit, or suggest, additional literature to the compiler for inclusion in revised versions.