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THE IMPLEMENTATION GAME: THE TRIPS AGREEMENT AND THE GLOBAL POLITICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REFORM IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. By Carolyn Deere, Oxford University Press, December 2008. The ‘Implementation Game’ is the first book-length study of the politics surrounding the implementation of the World Trade Organisation’s Agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). It seeks to explain the variation in how developing countries have implemented the treaty, highlighting the influence of global intellectual property debates, international pressures, and political dynamics within developing countries. In so doing, the book exposes how power politics occur not just within global trade talks but afterward when countries implement agreements. ‘The Implementation Game’ will be of interest to all those engaged in debates on the global governance of trade and intellectual property, and the challenges facing developing countries in the global economy. For further information, please refer to http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199550616.
THE PROMISE AND THE PERILS OF AGRICULTURAL TRADE LIBERALIZATION: LESSONS FROM LATIN AMERICA. By Mamerto Pérez, Sergio Schlesinger, and Timothy A. Wise with the Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas, June 2008. Based on seven country studies examining both the promise of export agriculture and the perils of trade liberalisation for small-scale farmers in Latin America, the authors of this collaborative report call for a thorough review of agricultural trade and development policies in the region. The project assesses Mexico’s performance under NAFTA; the South American soybean boom in Brazil, Argentina, and Bolivia; and the impacts of rising imports on small-scale farmers in El Salvador, Bolivia, and Brazil. The authors suggest that the most important policy reform Latin America needs now is a much more selective and careful management of international trade, particularly in agriculture. For further information and to access the paper, please refer to http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/WorkingGroupAgric.htm.
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