13 Municipal-Level Trade Contestation: Activists and Local Governments, from the Multilateral Agreement on Investment to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

The chapter assesses recent developments in intellectual property protection in the EU–Canadian Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, and extrapolates results of these negotiations to the pending EU–US negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). It discusses the likely implications of ever-increasing protection of IPRs on international trade, innovation, and technology transfer. Given the complex interaction of TRIPs and WIPO Agreements with the newly emerging agreements, the chapter finally examines the structure and operation of dispute settlement and how existing fragmentation could be overcome. Intellectual property, it is submitted, offers an important case to extend the jurisdiction of WTO dispute settlement to preferential trade agreements.

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Dataset on SARS-CoV-2 non-pharmaceutical interventions in Brazilian municipalities

Scientific Data ◽

10.1038/s41597-021-00859-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos ◽

Darlan da Silva Candido ◽

William Marciel de Souza ◽

Lewis Buss ◽

Sabrina L. Li ◽

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Keyword(s):

Local Governments ◽

Federal District ◽

Social Distancing ◽

Survey Responses ◽

Municipal Level ◽

Pharmaceutical Interventions

AbstractBrazil has one of the fastest-growing COVID-19 epidemics worldwide. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) have been adopted at the municipal level with asynchronous actions taken across 5,568 municipalities and the Federal District. This paper systematises the fragmented information on NPIs reporting on a novel dataset with survey responses from 4,027 mayors, covering 72.3% of all municipalities in the country. This dataset responds to the urgency to track and share findings on fragmented policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Quantifying NPIs can help to assess the role of interventions in reducing transmission. We offer spatial and temporal details for a range of measures aimed at implementing social distancing and the dates when these measures were relaxed by local governments.

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Who Settles Disputes? Treaty Design and Trade Attitudes Toward the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)

International Organization ◽

10.1017/s0020818319000249 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 73 (4) ◽

pp. 881-900 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Hyeonho Hahm ◽

Thomas König ◽

Moritz Osnabrügge ◽

Elena Frech

Keyword(s):

Dispute Settlement ◽

Market Access ◽

Critical Role ◽

Public Support ◽

Trade Agreement ◽

Dispute Settlement Mechanism ◽

Design Elements ◽

Transatlantic Trade ◽

Nationally Representative ◽

Trade And Investment

AbstractWhat type of trade agreement is the public willing to accept? Instead of focusing on individual concerns about market access and trade barriers, we argue that specific treaty design and, in particular, the characteristics of the dispute settlement mechanism, play a critical role in shaping public support for trade agreements. To examine this theoretical expectation, we conduct a conjoint experiment that varies diverse treaty-design elements and estimate preferences over multiple dimensions of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) based on a nationally representative sample in Germany. We find that compared to other alternatives, private arbitration, known as investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), generates strong opposition to the trade agreement. As the single most important factor, this effect of dispute settlement characteristic is strikingly large and consistent across individuals’ key attributes, including skill levels, information, and national sentiment, among others.

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