Free Trade Agreements and TRIPS-plus: implications for developing countries in Africa

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dc.contributor.authorNicholson, Denise Rosemary
dc.date.accessioned2010-09-10T12:20:29Z
dc.date.available2010-09-10T12:20:29Z
dc.date.issued2005-12-05
dc.descriptionThis paper was published on the IFLA website, www.ifla.org. It was later updated and published under the title of Intellectual Property: Benefit or Burden for Africa? Available on this IR.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper will focus mainly on issues affecting access to knowledge in African countries and implications of international intellectual property agreements. It will show that the majority of these countries are struggling to meet the very basic requirements of the TRIPS Agreement, yet they are now being pressured by developing countries to adopt even stricter intellectual property regimes through the IP Chatper or "TRIPS-Plus" in Free Trade Agreements. The paper highlights the impact of Free Trade Agreements and TRIPS-Plus on education, libraries, people with sensory-disabilities, public health and development in general.en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttp://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/papers/195e-Nicholson.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/8645
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherwww.ifla.orgen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries;195-E; 154 SI- CLM
dc.subjectfree trade agreements; FTA; TRIPs; TRIPs-Plus; Africaen_US
dc.titleFree Trade Agreements and TRIPS-plus: implications for developing countries in Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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