Conclusion: Balancing Wealth and Health in a Transnational Regulatory Framework
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Description
The preceding case studies have demonstrated how countries sought to utilize flexibilities in the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) Agreement to keep as much material as possible free of claims to ownership and to withstand bilateral and unilateral attempts to impose TRIPS-plus obligations. They have offered evidence on the ways in which procedural and substantive issues are intertwined, and how far adherence to administrative values can go in producing substantive results that are accepted as legitimate. They have also shed light on the factors that permit effective resistance in an asymmetric contestation environment. This chapter discusses five variables that appear to have influenced the outcomes in these cases: expertise; the structure of civil society; institutional competence; normative commitments; and political opportunity structures.
Source Publication
Balancing Wealth and Health: The Battle over Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in Latin America
Source Editors/Authors
Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, César Rodríguez-Garavito
Publication Date
2014
Recommended Citation
Dreyfuss, Rochelle C. and Rodríguez-Garavito, César, "Conclusion: Balancing Wealth and Health in a Transnational Regulatory Framework" (2014). Faculty Chapters. 1179.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/1179
