Creative India: tapping the full potential
India’s creative economy is large, but its untapped potential is even larger. This study provides the first reliable measure on the size of India’s creative economy, explores the many challenges faced
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
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India gets equity back on agenda for Durban round
Back On Climate Talks After Being Ignored At Cancun Meet New Delhi: India has got the issue of
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Medicines for All, the pharma industry and the Indian state
<p>When we consider that expenditure on medicines in India accounts for 50% to 80% of treatment costs, India’s pharmaceutical success has clearly not translated into availability or affordability of medicines for all. As part of Universal Access to Healthcare, good quality healthcare should be accessible, affordable, and available to all in need.
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Trade in health services implications for people's health
The neo-liberal transformation of global economy has brought in a new trade regime replacing GATT 1947 with incorporation of services and intellectual property in the products to be exchanged and WTO as
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Tobacco packaging regulation: An international assessment of the intended and unintended consequences
<p>An international Deloitte report, commissioned by British American Tobacco, reveals that increasing the size of health warnings on packs and introducing graphic warnings has not directly reduced tobacco consumption – and calls into question whether plain packaging will achieve government health objectives.</p>
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A new patron for biotech industry
The Department of Biotechnology is playing venture capitalist to private companies to push agri research. Why would a company with a turnover of Rs 9,712 crore and profits of Rs 933 crore want a research loan of less than Rs 10 crore from the government? Ask the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), which has become venture capitalist to the well-heeled industry.
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PM panel to review India-EU free trade pact on Wednesday
Ahead of crucial talks on India-EU free trade agreement in Brussels, the Prime Minister
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WTO, WIPO and WHO examine role of patent information in access to medicines
<p> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" /> <title></title> <meta content="OpenOffice.org 3.2 (Linux)" name="GENERATOR" /> <style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> </style> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The information in patent documents and applications can play an important role in improving access to
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Post-Cancun, BASIC nations say time to tackle ticklish issues
With the Cancun conference having achieved a major success in bringing the troubled climate negotiations back on track, four major developing economies
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Emissions BASIC meet ends on `new policy' note
he sixth BASIC Feb. 27: The sixth BASIC ministerial meet on climate change saw consensus on the need to develop a new political strategy to ensure nations agree to a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol in order to achieve a global peaking of emissions.
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To save farmers, stop land acquisition, seed patents
To save the three