,,,Trading Up: How Much Should Poor Countries Pay to Support Pharmaceutical Innovation

Trading Up: How Much Should Poor Countries Pay to Support Pharmaceutical Innovation


 

Publication Date: November 2004

Publisher: Center for Global Development; Center for Global Development

Author(s): Jean O. Lanjouw; William Jack; Jean O. Lanjouw; William Jack

Research Area: Health

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Abstract:

This brief outlines how a global structure of pharmaceutical prices may be determined to balance both the efficiency and the social equity concerns that arise in dealing with countries with widely disparate needs and incomes.