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The potential impact of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) on Malaysia's access to medicine

Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiation opens door of opportunities as well as challenges to Malaysia. The key concern is the involvement of the US which is feared to bring in many WTOPlus commitments in the agreement, even though the TPPA may help to provide significant market in t...

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Main Authors: Alavi, Rokiah, Mohd Amin, Ruzita, Mat Ghani, Gairuzazmi, Idris, Rafiq
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2015
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HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/49446/1/49446.pdf
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http://www.worldresearchlibrary.org/up_proc/pdf/68-144315916874-74.pdf
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spelling my.iium.irep.494462017-12-05T04:16:12Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/49446/ The potential impact of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) on Malaysia's access to medicine Alavi, Rokiah Mohd Amin, Ruzita Mat Ghani, Gairuzazmi Idris, Rafiq HD Industries. Land use. Labor Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiation opens door of opportunities as well as challenges to Malaysia. The key concern is the involvement of the US which is feared to bring in many WTOPlus commitments in the agreement, even though the TPPA may help to provide significant market in terms of penetrating to the US huge market. Many provisions are speculated as to be introduced in the TPPA and would bring detrimental impact on a country’s economy. This study focuses on one issue in relation to Malaysia’s participation in TPPA. Issue on the potential impact of TRIPS-Plus provision in the intellectual property chapter on access to medicine in Malaysia is being examined. TRIPS-Plus provisions would have significant impact on access to medicines as well as on the domestic pharmaceutical industry. So far there are no studies that have systematically evaluated the impact of TRIPS-Plus agreement on these issues in Malaysia. This study uses Macroeconomic Model of Impact Changes in Intellectual Property Rights (MICIPR) to assess the impact of TPPA on Malaysia’s access to medicine by examining the impact of data exclusivity, patent term restoration and patent linkages provisions on medicine price, medicine expenditure and the sales’ of domestic pharmaceutical industry. 2015 Conference or Workshop Item REM application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/49446/1/49446.pdf Alavi, Rokiah and Mohd Amin, Ruzita and Mat Ghani, Gairuzazmi and Idris, Rafiq (2015) The potential impact of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) on Malaysia's access to medicine. In: Academics World 2nd International Conference, 5th Sept. 2015, Kuala Lumpur. http://www.worldresearchlibrary.org/up_proc/pdf/68-144315916874-74.pdf
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topic HD Industries. Land use. Labor
spellingShingle HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Alavi, Rokiah
Mohd Amin, Ruzita
Mat Ghani, Gairuzazmi
Idris, Rafiq
The potential impact of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) on Malaysia's access to medicine
description Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiation opens door of opportunities as well as challenges to Malaysia. The key concern is the involvement of the US which is feared to bring in many WTOPlus commitments in the agreement, even though the TPPA may help to provide significant market in terms of penetrating to the US huge market. Many provisions are speculated as to be introduced in the TPPA and would bring detrimental impact on a country’s economy. This study focuses on one issue in relation to Malaysia’s participation in TPPA. Issue on the potential impact of TRIPS-Plus provision in the intellectual property chapter on access to medicine in Malaysia is being examined. TRIPS-Plus provisions would have significant impact on access to medicines as well as on the domestic pharmaceutical industry. So far there are no studies that have systematically evaluated the impact of TRIPS-Plus agreement on these issues in Malaysia. This study uses Macroeconomic Model of Impact Changes in Intellectual Property Rights (MICIPR) to assess the impact of TPPA on Malaysia’s access to medicine by examining the impact of data exclusivity, patent term restoration and patent linkages provisions on medicine price, medicine expenditure and the sales’ of domestic pharmaceutical industry.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Alavi, Rokiah
Mohd Amin, Ruzita
Mat Ghani, Gairuzazmi
Idris, Rafiq
author_facet Alavi, Rokiah
Mohd Amin, Ruzita
Mat Ghani, Gairuzazmi
Idris, Rafiq
author_sort Alavi, Rokiah
title The potential impact of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) on Malaysia's access to medicine
title_short The potential impact of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) on Malaysia's access to medicine
title_full The potential impact of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) on Malaysia's access to medicine
title_fullStr The potential impact of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) on Malaysia's access to medicine
title_full_unstemmed The potential impact of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) on Malaysia's access to medicine
title_sort potential impact of trans-pacific partnership agreement (tppa) on malaysia's access to medicine
publishDate 2015
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