Ensuring a Sustainable and Resilient Response to COVID-19 and Emerging Infectious Diseases through Local Production United Nations High-Level Political Forum 2021 Side EventOrganized by South Centre, ReAct - Action on Antibiotic Resistance and (more...)
Statement by the South Centre on the extension of the transition period for LDCs under the TRIPS Agreement
The TRIPS Council decision to extend the TRIPS transition period for LDCs until 1 June 2034 confirms their right to an extension but it (more...)
Interpreting the Flexibilities Under the TRIPS AgreementBy Carlos M. Correa
While the TRIPS Agreement provides for minimum standards of protection of intellectual property, it leaves a certain degree of policy space for WTO members, whether developed or developing (more...)
Improve nexus rule for fair distribution of taxing rights to developing countriesBy Radhakishan Rawal
One of the open issues for Pillar One in the discussion on the taxation of the digital economy is the nexus threshold, which would determine which Multinational (more...)
Investment Policy Options for Facing COVID-19 Related ISDS ClaimsBy Daniel Uribe and Danish
Developing and least developed countries have undertaken a number of measures to fight against the multidimensional impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Such measures and those (more...)
TRIPS Flexibilities and TRIPS-plus Provisions in the RCEP Chapter on Intellectual Property: How Much Policy Space is Retained? By Vitor Henrique Pinto Ido
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was signed on 15 November 2020 by 15 Asian-Pacific (more...)
Systemic reform of the international debt architecture is yet to startBy Yuefen Li
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the reform of the international debt architecture to the policy agenda. Up to now policy measures to address the crushing debt burden of developing (more...)
Repensando la fabricación mundial y local de productos médicos tras el COVID-19 Por Germán Velásquez
La crisis sanitaria mundial sin precedentes provocada por la pandemia del coronavirus –COVID-19, durante el primer semestre de 2020, hace que se vuelva a (more...)
Conceptualizing a UN Multilateral InstrumentBy Radhakishan Rawal
Recent changes to the United Nations (UN) Model Tax Convention have resulted in provisions that are more advantageous for developing countries in raising revenue through international taxation, i.e. (more...)