Domestic contours of global regulation: Understanding the policy changes on pharmaceutical patents in India and Turkey

2007-02-01
Eren-Vural, Ipek
The last two decades saw sweeping changes in the pharmaceutical patent policies of the developing countries from weak/non patentability to strong patent regimes. Analysing the policy change from a political economy approach, this paper pursues two simultaneous objectives. Firstly, it explores the common factors underlying the recent changes in the pharmaceutical patent policies of the developing countries. Secondly, it analyses the sources of the differential policy outcomes on pharmaceutical patents in India and Turkey.
REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY

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Citation Formats
I. Eren-Vural, “Domestic contours of global regulation: Understanding the policy changes on pharmaceutical patents in India and Turkey,” REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY, pp. 105–142, 2007, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/63487.