Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest • Volume 9 • Number 2 • 26th January 2005
Resources
APPELLATE BODY ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2004. WTO, January 2005. The Appellate Body Annual Report for 2004 includes appeals, amendments to the working procedure and appellate body reports. There were five appeals filed in 2004, including the EC - Tariff Preferences, the Canada - Wheat Exports and Grain Imports and the US -Softwood Lumber V appeals. For more information and access to the report visit http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/wt_ab3_e.doc.
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE INITIATIVE ANNUAL REPORT, 2005, January 2005. The report was developed by the Centre for International Governance Innovation and the United Nations Foundation, and was to be presented at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland on January 25. A panel assessed global progress in peace and security, hunger and poverty, education, health, environment, and human rights, scoring each category based on the world’s efforts to achieve its goals. For more information and to access the report visit http://www.ifpri.org/PRESSREL/2005/ggi2005.pdf.
INNOVATION: APPLYING KNOWLEDGE IN DEVELOPMENT. By Calestous Juma and Lee Yee-Cheong, UN Millennium Project Task Force on Science, Technology and Innovation, January 2005. This report highlights the importance of knowledge and innovation for development, outlining how science and technology can contribute to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. It stresses the need to create space for policy experimentation and learning in developing countries, noting that development is a learning process and an expression of local initiative and international partnership. For more information and to access the report visit http://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/BCSIA_content_stage/documents/TF-Advance2.pdf.
LESSONS FROM RECENT ECONOMIC RESEARCH ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND DEVELOPMENT. Edited by Editors Keith E. Maskus and Carsten Fink, World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2005. As trade agreements around the world establish new rules on the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs), "Intellectual Property and Development: Lessons from Recent Economic Research" argues that a ‘one size fits all’ approach is unlikely to work, and that developing countries should opt for different standards of protection than those prevailing in high-income countries. The book brings together recent studies on the effects of changing IPR regimes on economic and social performance in the developing world. To download the book, visit http://www.worldbank.org/research/IntellProp_temp.pdf