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Brief TRIPS Council Gives Way To Informals
A brief session of the WTO Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Council last week focused primarily on the relationship between the TRIPS Agreement and the Convention on Biological Diversity, and on enforcement. Members adjourned early, with informal talks to continue on issues including geographical indications. The 13 February TRIPS Council followed informal consultations…
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World Inching Closer To Global Climate Collaboration?
More than a hundred legislators from key developed and developing countries recently reached a non-binding agreement on tackling climate change, looking to implement emissions targets for all. Following in the heels of this World Bank-sponsored event, a group of global private sector companies and organisations agreed on the need for a "bold" framework for tackling…
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WIPO Development Agenda Meeting Underway
Another round of talks on a ‘development agenda’ for the World Intellectual Property Organisation is underway, as the committee responsible for the issue kicked off a week-long meeting on 19 February. The Provisional Committee on a Development Agenda is examining some 111 proposals that have been made since 2004, when…
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Trade Features Prominently At UNEP Governing Council
At a recent meeting, the new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Achim Steiner and WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy — echoed by a number of environment ministers and other high-level participants — called for improving the synergies between the trade and environment regimes. In addition to Lamy, several heads of UN agencies attended the 24th Session…
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WTO, ILO Release Joint Study On Trade And Employment
The secretariats of the WTO and the International Labour Organization have issued a joint study on the relationship between trade and employment. It concludes that greater policy coherence in the two areas can have positive impacts on the growth effects of trade reforms and ultimately on their potential to improve job quality worldwide. The study, entitled…
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Events
EVENTS For a more comprehensive list of events in trade and sustainable development, please refer to ICTSD’s web calendar at: http://www.ictsd.org/cal/index.htm. If you would like to submit an event, please email events@ictsd.ch. Upcoming : 15-21 February 26 February, Managua, Nicaragua: NICARAGUAN NATIONAL MEETING AND EXPERTS’ ROUNDTABLE ON TRADE IN SERVICES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.…
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Events
EVENTS For a more comprehensive list of events in trade and sustainable development, please refer to ICTSD’s web calendar at: http://www.ictsd.org/cal/index.htm. If you would like to submit an event, please email events@ictsd.ch. Upcoming : 15-21 February 26 February, Managua, Nicaragua: NICARAGUAN NATIONAL MEETING AND EXPERTS’ ROUNDTABLE ON TRADE IN SERVICES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.…
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Resources
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: EXCHANGE CONTROLS AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE. By Shang-Jin Wei and Zhiwei Zhang (IMF Working Paper, 1 January 2007). This paper examines the negative effects of exchange controls on trade and concludes that collateral damage in terms of foregone trade is sizeable. The paper finds that a one standard-deviation increase in the controls on trade…