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Strade Measures On Pharmaceutical Products: Can They Promote Local Production And Public Health?

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  • Padmashree Gehl Sampath

    (Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University)

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The rise in trade measures on pharmaceutical products has become a matter of intense debate since the start of the COVID-19 crisis. By October 2022, more than140 export restrictions had been placed on them worldwide; at least 50 directly affected vaccine production and distribution. A systematic assessment of their welfare effects offers a way to classify the plethora of trade measures in the global pharmaceutical sector with an explanation of their use in different jurisdictions worldwide. It also provides an assessment and indicates advances on ways in which such trade measures can be used in the interest of local production and public health.

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  • Padmashree Gehl Sampath, 2022. "Strade Measures On Pharmaceutical Products: Can They Promote Local Production And Public Health?," Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), vol. 29(2), pages 47-69, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:unt:japsdj:v:29:y:2022:i:2:p:47-69
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    Keywords

    local production; trade measures; tariffs; non-tariff measures; industrial policy; access to medicines; government policy; intellectual property rights;
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    JEL classification:

    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
    • I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
    • L23 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Organization of Production
    • L52 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Industrial Policy; Sectoral Planning Methods
    • O25 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Industrial Policy
    • O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
    • O38 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Government Policy

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