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 Intellectual Property Rights and the Poor      
 Name: K.P
2/8/2005
(7:56) GMT
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Countries across the world are under increasing pressure 
to sign up to intellectual property (IPR) regimes that 
govern the global trading system. While there are examples 
of how claiming intellectual property rights to a resource 
has helped poorer communities, many economists and 
campaigners express doubts that IPR regimes have the best 
interests of the poor at heart, or that they can make a 
real impact unless the wider macroeconomic context in 
which they are imposed is also addressed. Moreover, many 
communities in the developing world argue that what is of 
priority to them is being able to claim the full range of 
resources they feel entitled to, and to have the ways they 
claim ownership of these resources recognized. 

Such issues are the focus of debate and advocacy around 
implementation of the Trade-Related Intellectual Property 
Rights (TRIPS) agreement and the Convention on 
Biodiversity (CBD), where many argue more inclusive ideas 
about the protection and ownership of resources have to be 
taken seriously if endemic poverty in the developing world 
is to be addressed.


Kate Prendergast
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