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Issue No. 273 (May 2013)
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COVER:
The Novartis verdict: The patently wrong priorities of Big Pharma
A
victory for access to medicines
The
Indian Supreme Court's 1 April patents decision has been hailed as a
victory for the rights to affordable medicines.
By Martin Khor
The
larger implications of the Novartis-Glivec judgment
The
Indian Supreme Court judgment on the Novartis-Glivec case has put the
matter in a larger political and economic perspective.
By Sudip Chaudhuri
What
should we learn from the Novartis judgment?
The
legal background to the Indian Supreme Court decision on Novartis' claim
for a patent and the significance of some aspects of the judgment.
By KM Gopakumar
Pharmaceutical
innovation and incremental patenting
The
patent system has moved far away from its objective of stimulating genuine
inventions.
By Carlos M Correa
Deadly
rise of 'superbugs'? It's business as usual for Big Pharma!
Big
Pharma's obsession with short-term profits is best illustrated by its
refusal to invest in the development of new antibiotics to combat diseases
caused by the new deadly strains of multi-drug-resistant bacteria.
By Shila Kaur
Big
Pharma CEOs rake in $1.57 billion in pay
In
the US the big pharmaceutical companies have been raking in huge profits
through the price-gouging of government programmes and illegal marketing
activity.
By Ethan Rome
ECOLOGY
China's
domestic dam plans draw ire at home and abroad
China's
dam-building plans have raised serious concerns domestically and abroad.
By Katy Yan
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ECONOMICS
Dealing
with the transnational corporations
Threatened
by billion-dollar lawsuits arising from investment treaties, several
Latin American governments have formed a new grouping to deal with transnational
companies.
By Martin Khor
World
Bank seeks to eradicate poverty ... by lowering the bar
Why
the World Bank goal of ending extreme poverty 'within a generation'
smacks of chicanery.
By Roberto Bissio
Egypt:
Walking the IMF tightrope
The
conditions for the IMF's proposed $4.8 billion loan for restoring Egypt's
faltering economy would be socially and politically costly.
By James Maxwell
Field
trials
In
China's Pearl River Delta, urban planners and advisers are experimenting
with new development strategies that take people's views into account.
By Christian Wuttke
WORLD AFFAIRS
New
study claims over 250,000 died from 2011 Somalia famine, US-Al Shabaab
savagery to blame
A
new study has revealed that the 2011 Somalia famine was more devastating
than previously believed. And the US had a role in it.
By Stephen Roblin
The
Korean War Gangnam Style
Response
to a flippant comment by a Canadian minister on the Korean War (1950-53)
- one of the most brutal and least understood wars of the 20th century.
By Yves Engler
Where
land is power
The
landless peasant farmers occupying large landholdings in the Brazilian
state where the land conflict is most violent, face various threats.
By Fabiola Ortiz
HUMAN RIGHTS
Activists
call for review of Myanmar's citizenship law
Myanmar's
citizenship law has left some 1.2 million people stateless and without
rights. It is time to enfranchise the disenfranchised, say human rights
activists.
WOMEN
Female
garment workers bear brunt of tragedy
Women,
who make up 80% of the workforce in Bangladesh's booming garments industry,
have borne the brunt of the unending cycle of industrial accidents in
this sector.
By Suvendrini Kakuchi
VIEWPOINT
Thatcher:
A requiem
For
former British premier Margaret Thatcher (October 1925-April 2013),
the freedom of the markets was the highest liberty and she chained the
people indissolubly to them.
By Jeremy Seabrook
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