A Compromise Moratorium
A Compromise Moratorium As vaccine rollout in the United States and other Western-developed countries ramps up, developing countries are mostly still waiting and likely will continue to be further back in the queue for shots. That disparity is fueling a bitter new front in a quarter-century long fight between developed and developing countries over the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) intellectual property rules. When the WTO was created, it came with the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Agreement, a set of rules that aimed to help IP-intensive firms like pharmaceutical co...
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