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Policy Complements to the Strengthening of IPRS in Developing Countries - China's Intellectual Property Environment: A Firm-Level Perspective

Zhao, Minyuan - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2010

beyond a mechanical interpretation of patent law or copyright law. Instead, with years of experience in innovation, imitation …, but also privatization policies, trade and FDI policies, as well as the role of the government in China’s innovation …

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Policy Complements to the Strengthening of IPRS in Developing Countries

Cepeda, Ricardo Cavazos; Lippoldt, Douglas C.; Senft, … - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2010

The past two decades have witnessed an active period of global reform with respect to policies concerning Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). This paper examines – from an empirical, economic perspective – policies that complement the generally strengthened framework for IPRs in developing...

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Trade and Innovation: Report on the Chemicals Sector

Kiriyama, Nobuo - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2010

This study analyses linkages between trade and innovation in the chemicals sector, building on past work at the OECD on … trade and innovation. The chemicals sector has a long history of innovation and is a large trading item. It covers very … diverse sub-sectors. This paper analyses and compares different trade and innovation linkages in basic industrial chemicals …

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International Licensing and the Strengthening of Intellectual Property Rights in Developing Countries

Park, Walter G.; Lippoldt, Douglas C. - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2004

This study presents an empirical analysis of the extent to which stronger intellectual property rights promote international technology transfer through licensing activities. The analysis focuses on licensing activities of U.S. multinationals as well as on international licensing alliances...

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Informal Cross-Border Trade and Trade Facilitation Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa

Lesser, Caroline; Moisé-Leeman, Evdokia - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2009

The informal sector still constitutes an important part of developing country economies. In Africa, it is estimated to represent 43 percent of official gross domestic product (GDP), thus being almost equivalent to the formal sector. While this phenomenon may provide short-term solutions to poor...

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Smallholder Risk Management in Developing Countries

Cervantes-Godoy, Dalila; Kimura, Shingo; Antón, Jesús - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013

This paper addresses various aspects of risk and risk management for smallholders in developing countries, and presents a quantitative assessment of farm-level risks and risk management strategies in three emerging economies: Brazil, China and Viet Nam. The analysis covers production, income,...

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Agricultural Specific Trade Facilitation Indicators: An Overview

Liapis, Peter - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2015

Trade facilitation matters. Estimates of trade friction costs from border and custom procedures are relatively high. Trade facilitation to allow for the speedy movement of traded goods may be more important for agricultural, especially perishable, products than for other goods because of their...

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Estimating the Constraints to Agricultural Trade of Developing Countries

Moïsé, Evdokia; Delpeuch, Claire; Sorescu, Silvia; … - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013

Agricultural trade is widely considered as an important contributor to developing countries‘ economic growth, poverty alleviation and food security. This report identifies and analyses some of the most important supply-side constraints to developing countries‘ exports of agricultural...

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Connecting Local Producers in Developing Countries to Regional and Global Value Chains: Update

Bamber, Penny; Fernandez-Stark, Karina; Gereffi, Gary; … - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2014

This report analyzes the specific factors that affect the competitiveness of developing countries in global value chains (GVCs), and how these factors differ across four major economic sectors: agriculture, extractive industries, manufacturing and offshore services. Although integration into...

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Global Value Chains and Developing Country Employment: A Literature Review

Shepherd, Ben - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013

—electronics in Asia and services in Chile—that demonstrate the complexity of the issues involved, and the role of complementary …

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