BACKGROUND The World Trade Organisation's Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health (known as the Doha Declaration) of 2001, and subsequent Decision on the Interpretation of Paragraph 6 reached in 2003, affirmed the flexibilities available under the Agreement on Trade Related Property Rights (TRIPS) to member states seeking to protect public health. Despite these important clarificat...

BACKGROUND In principle, trade and investment agreements are meant to boost economic growth. However, the removal of trade barriers and the provision of investment incentives to attract foreign direct investments may facilitate increased trade in and/or more efficient production of commodities considered harmful to health such as tobacco. We analyze existing evidence on trade and investment lib...

Trade poses risks and opportunities to public health nutrition. This paper discusses the potential food-related public health risks of a radical new kind of trade agreement: the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP). Under negotiation since 2010, the TPP involves Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the USA, and Vietnam. Here, we review th...

Integration of agricultural markets has been a topic great interest in Mozambique. Numerous studies have conducted to assess both domestic and regional integration maize the country, though with some contradictory results. In this study market Mozambique is assessed, focusing on as main crop country. contrast previous work, takes into account new investments infrastructure well changes trade po...

How do regional trade agreements impact exporters in non-member countries? We revisit this long-standing policy question using firm-level data from Costa Rica and detailed information on the content of agreements. Differently conventional view diversion, analysis shows that “deep” can have a positive spillover effect: they increase probability export entry third-country firms previously exporte...