Brook Baker describes the potential harms to global health from the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement and its failure to balance the interests of patients and the public with those of industry.
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Global Health
June 2024
School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
Background: Thailand has expressed interest in joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), a twelve-country plurilateral trade agreement whose original incarnation included the United States of America (USA). When the USA withdrew from this agreement, key intellectual property clauses relevant to pharmaceuticals were suspended. These could be reinstated should the CPTPP Parties decide to do so.
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January 2023
The University of Queensland Medical School, Ochsner Clinical School, New Orleans, LA.
In 2009, Ochsner Health in New Orleans, Louisiana, and The University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, formed a medical school partnership. The rationale for UQ to enter this partnership was to strengthen its already strong international multicultural environment and enrich the domestic Australian student experience. The rationale for Ochsner Health was to raise its academic stature and to train high-quality physicians.
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July 2023
School of Economics and Trade, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China.
Solar PV enables the conversion of solar energy into electricity and has become a clean energy technology for economic development. The advantages and disadvantages of solar photovoltaic vary among CPTPP member nations; nevertheless, since the CPTPP's implementation, fewer researchers have evaluated the member countries' solar photovoltaic goods' level of international competitiveness. In order to correct the flaw that the RCA index can only be studied from trade volume, this study adopts the IRCA index method and the revised CMS model, which integrates a number of variables to analyze the competitiveness of solar photovoltaic in each country.
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September 2022
School of Economics, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, Shandong, China.
China is actively deepening integration into economic cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) has come into force and China is one of its members. Furthermore, China is applying to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
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July 2022
Rowe School of Business, Dalhousie University, Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building, 6100 University Ave, PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2 Canada.
Event studies are widely used in finance research to investigate the implications of announcements of corporate initiatives, regulatory changes, or macroeconomic shocks on stock prices. These studies are often used in a single-country setting (usually the U.S.
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