Essays about: "WTO"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 185 essays containing the word WTO.

  1. 1. Patents or Patients? The COVD-19 Pandemic and Intellectual Property Rights

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för handelsrätt

    Author : Fatema Noor Jasia; [2022]
    Keywords : Covid-19; Pandemic; Human Rights to Health; Patent Rights; Affordable Medicine; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Worldwide inequality in the circulation of vaccines during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic re-ignited the ever-existing turmoil between rich, developed nations and poor, developing nations on the role of intellectual property (IP) against the fundamental right to health. The World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) contribute to making medicinal products and diagnostic supplies more cost effectively for everyone around the world. READ MORE

  3. 2. Discussing International Climate Regulations in a Post-colonial World : A Content Analysis on EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

    Author : Iman Miriam Djelloul; [2022]
    Keywords : Global Trade; Carbon Emissions Trading; Climate Regulations; Carbon-colonialism; Post-colonialism; WTO; EU; CBAM.;

    Abstract : In a contemporary with intense concerns towards global warming, this thesis has investigated the matter of how trade regulation policies, responding to climate change, are rhetorically motivated and discussed within international forums. Particularly by looking at the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and by critically dissecting how the EU has been navigating its conflicting position; on one hand, as the self-appointed leader of progressive climate actions, on the other hand, as the guardian of the common economic interests of the Union – and on a third stand, as a prominent member of the World Trade Organization, with binding obligations to not violate its rules. READ MORE

  4. 3. Semiconductor topography IP rights: Is there possibility for revival?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Adam Novak; [2022]
    Keywords : Immaterialrätt; Intellectual Property; Topography; Kretsmönster; Washington Treaty; TRIPS; Comparative Law; Legal History; Tech Law; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Halvledarindustrin har en form av immaterialrätter avsedd särskilt för dem: Kretsmönsterrätter. Dessa introducerades i USA 1984 i syfte att skydda den amerikanska halvledarindustrin från konkurrens från östra Asien, huvudsakligen Japan. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Ethical Implications of the TRIPS Agreement

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Minahil Malik; [2022]
    Keywords : Bayesian process tracing; TRIPS Agreement; covid-19; India; IPT analysis; moral philosophy; international relations; WTO;

    Abstract : The current TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) agreement established by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is a major determinant of accessibility to drugs. In International Relations (IR), the discourse surrounds the role of these intellectual property rights on the global economic order. READ MORE

  6. 5. Government Support for Semiconductors & International Trade Disciplines - Proposed Chips Act for Europe within the Frame of WTO Commitments

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för handelsrätt

    Author : Matthew Langdon; [2022]
    Keywords : subsidies; semiconductors; chips; EU; Chips Act; Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Agreement; WTO; DRAMS; R D; trade disputes; GATT; Chips Fund; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The global semiconductor industry has benefited from a period of intense geographic specialization, yet faces the growing prospect of a new era of turbulence in international trade relations. Severely disrupted by exogenous shocks in global supply chains, the ability of the industry to cater to ceaseless demand growth is jeopardized by an increasing number of initiatives proposed for most industrialized economies to subsidize domestic development and production of semiconductors. READ MORE