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All Costs, No Benefits: How TRIPS Plus Intellectual Property Rules in The US-Jordan FTA Affect Access To Medicines by Oxfam is a document available to read on EtoBox.

The USA continues to impose TRIPS-plus rules on developing countries, thus preventing poor people from accessing inexpensive, generic medicines. Jordan was required under the terms of its WTO accession package and its free trade agreement (FTA) with the USA to introduce TRIPS-plus rules. Medicine prices have increased drastically, and TRIPS-plus rules were partly responsible for this increase. Furthermore, stricter levels of intellectual property protection have conferred few benefits with respect to foreig

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Oxfam

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