Estimation of Steel Exports & Imports to analyze the Impact of Free Trade on Production in the Steel Industry.

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The right to health, the TRIPS agreement and the public health safeguards to encourage the universal access to essential medicines

The privileges arising from patent protection on pharmaceutical products often prevent the full realization of the right to health, especially in developing countries with scarce resources. This thesis first identifies the international agreements that have established the right to health in international law, obligations and violations associated with it, the problems encountered in the implementation of human rights on the field, compared with the implementation and sanctions associated with economic rights from the World Trade Organization regulatory framework. A comparative study of the legislative frameworks of both developed and developing countries will reveal to what extent Canada, the United States, the European Union, Brazil, India, and South Africa conformed with patent protection exceptions arising from international patent law to protect public health. Finally, the author identifies the crucial indicators that need to be considered in order to assess the conformity of a given approach with the right to health, before he underscores the temporary character of the relevant WTO measures, and the future stakes concerning an increased access to essential medicines.

A Western Hemisphere free trade area: implications for Latin America

Includes bibliography

North-South trade relations in the Americas: the case for free trade

Includes bibliography

Is a genuine partnership possible in a Western Hemisphere free trade area?

Includes bibliography

Beyond NAFTA: employment, growth, and income-distribution effects of a Western Hemisphere free trade area

Includes bibliography

Western Hemisphere free trade: getting from here to there

Includes bibliography

Recent trade performance of Caribbean countries

Includes bibliography

Ex-post evaluation of the employment effects of a preferential trade agreement: methodological issues, illustrated with a reference to Chile

Includes bibliography

Trade and sustainable development: spatial distribution of trade policies impacts on agriculture

Incluye Bibliografía

Efectos de la Asociación de Libre Comercio del Caribe (CARIFTA) = Impact of the Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA)

Incluye Bibliografía

The Caribbean countries and the Free Trade Area of the Americas

Includes bibliography