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Proposal for a WTO Agreement on the Supply of Public goods

2016

June 16, 2016. Thiru Balasubramaniam, Trade Agreements and the Supply of Public Goods: Report of the Berlin meeting to consider a possible WTO Agreement on the supply of public/social goods [1], Published by Heinrich Böll Stiftung.

February 28, 2016. KEI Contribution To The United Nations Secretary-General’s High Level Panel On Access To Medicines Trade Agreements and The Supply Of Public Goods (link here [2]).

2015

Report of consultations in Berlin and Geneva, forthcoming.

2014

June 6, 2014. Duncan Green, Jamie Love’s Next Big Idea: Making the WTO into a force for good in Public Health [3]. From Poverty to Power.

July 8, 2014 The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Tuberculosis (APPGTB) released a seminal report entitled, “Dying for a Cure: Research and Development for Global Health.” Among other things, the report called for work on a WTO Agreement on the Supply of Public Goods. [Link here [4]

July 14, 2014. New UK Parliamentary report on Global TB urges the United Kingdom to explore a WTO Agreement on the Provision of Public Goods [5]

October 1, 2014. Trade related aspects of open medical R&D, presented at UAEM side event at WTO, (Link here [6]).

October 11, 2014. Increasing the supply of global public goods. Presentation at Humanitarian Congress, Berlin. (Link here [7])

October 14, 2014. Short slides, WTO agreement on public goods. (Link here [8])

November 6, 2014, NAM, MSF, UNDP workshop, Bali. Slides here [9].

2011

September 21, 2011. KEI/IQsensato panel at WTO Public Forum: Proposal for a WTO Agreement on the Supply of Knowledge as a Public Good [10].

2009

January 2009. Presentation at the World Forum on Science and Democracy, held in Belém, Brasil. (See the text of the Belém remarks here [11], and a comment by David Bollier here [12].)

December 1, 2009. KEI presented a proposal for a WTO agreement on the supply of global public goods, at a joint KEI/IQSensato side event at the Geneva WTO ministerial meeting. The slides [13] from the side event are available in PDF format.

2008

The proposal was first presented by KEI by Manon Ress in a 2008 workshop on public goods held at Columbia University. The text is available here [14].

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