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Posts Tagged ‘developing countries’


An inquiry into factors influencing Canadian policies related to pharmaceutical patents

By Jason Wenczler — March 18th, 2008
My current research studies the primary factors influencing the federal government’s decision-making with respect to pharmaceutical policy during the past decade. I am particularly interested in learning about how the nature of the state-its role and structure-and the state’s relationship with big business has shaped …



Million Book Project

By Archie Techne — November 29th, 2007
Looks like the Million Book Project has just launched. Through an international effort between universities in the US, China, India and Egypt, some 1.5 million books have been digitized and made available online for free. A recent article quotes one of the project …



Rethinking neo-liberalism

By Eliot Che — November 3rd, 2007
The term ‘neo-liberalism’ is one that is commonplace in both academic and activist circles. Understood as capitalist imperialism by some, as market-based policies by others, neo-liberalism is a contested term that continues to have exceptional significance in a period of renewed …