Trade ministers meeting in Qatar on 9-13 November for the fourth WTO Ministerial Conference face a wide range of tough tradeoffs and decisions, as three draft texts issued on 27 October spell out a variety of unresolved issues among WTO...

It looks increasingly certain that WTO Members will adopt a stand- alone statement on the Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) and access to medicines at their Ministerial Conference in Doha, Qatar, in November....

In the grey landscape of déjà vu that characterises the run-up to the WTO’s Ministerial Conference next November, the issue of poor countries’ access to medicines looks set to provide a bright exception. On 20 June, WTO...