Developing countries face huge challenges when designing and implementing intellectual property rights policy on all levels. This book offers perspectives from a diverse range of developing country participants including civil society participants, farmers, researchers and government officials.

An unprecedented surge in the scope and level of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection has been engulfing the world. This globalizing trend has shifted the balance of interests between private innovators and society at large and tensions have flared around key public policy concerns. As developing nations??? policy options to use IPRs in support of their broader development strategy are being rapidly narrowed down, many experts are questioning the ???one-size-fits-all??? approach to IPR protection and are backing a rebalancing of the global regime. Developing countries face huge...

An analysis of the relationship between green box subsidies and sustainable development goals, which includes options for future reform.