Hands Off Our Medicine

According to Medicins sans frontieres, the EU is trying to use its trade talks with India to constrain the possibilities of this country’s firms to produce generic drugs. Because 80% of the world generics are coming from India, it would be of huge harm to people in developing countries who cannot afford their AIDS/HIV and other drugs from the actual patent holders – they are fully dependent on generics.

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Food Prices and Poverty, Pt. 3

There is another one interesting commentary on what Dani Rodrik wrote last week (and what I commented here). A short excerpt: