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Explanation of the Doha Declaration on TRIPS

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In this post we will discuss the The Doha Declaration on the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement & public health, and how it affects the scope of intellectual property laws set out for the first time in international law for WTO Members by the TRIPS Agreement in 1994. The need for a clarification of the scope of the TRIPS agreement arose because of the potential conflict of two matters of public interest: 1) The matter of providing incentives to those who innovate solutions which have the potential to improve public health 2) The matter of making … Continue reading Explanation of the Doha Declaration on TRIPS

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Update on Pakistan’s floods

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Listen to the Interview Here: Radio interview with TiffinTalk, an Indian current affairs radioshow While the breaking news of the Pakistan floods has faded from the front pages of newspapers, only to be replaced by what sounds like flood induced damage to unfinished buildings at the Commonwealth Games, the fallout from the catastrophe is still very real.  As a matter of fact, for the scale of the disaster that Pakistan faced during this year’s monsoon, the amount of aid it received was stunningly low.  To give us a better understanding of the floods, we are joined by Imad Ahmed.  Imad … Continue reading Update on Pakistan’s floods

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Interview with BusinessBecause

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Business Because The Fletcher School Q+A By Kate Jillings, 23/09 /2010 Business students at The Fletcher School aren’t afraid to change the world, according to MIB 2011 candidate Imad Ahmed Imad Ahmed Where did you grow up? Until I was 18, I grew up in eight towns, villages and cities across England. We would take holidays to Pakistan, and surrounding countries like the UAE and Sri Lanka, or to California. When we returned to England, we often found ourselves in a new home due to my father’s frequent transfers. You studied your undergrad on the West Coast at Berkeley. What … Continue reading Interview with BusinessBecause

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America’s face to Muslims

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Fletcher Features Farah Pandith, F95, sworn into the position of US Department of State Special Representative to Muslim Communities by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Imaduddin Ahmed | June 18, 2010 Tufts University Fletcher School graduate Farah Pandith spearheads US President Barack Obama’s initiative to launch a ‘new beginning’ with Muslim communities “I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, … Continue reading America’s face to Muslims

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Foreign direct investment into Latin America

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Recommended reading by Professor of International Economics Krohn, with a summary by Erika Tabacniks and me below. Daniel Chudnovsky and Andres Lopez, ‘Foreign Direct Investment and Development: the Mercosur Experience,’ CEPAL Review #92, August 2007. http://www.eclac.org/publicaciones/xml/0/31920/ChudnovskyLopez.pdf Ruth Rios-Morales y David O’Donovan, Can the Latin American and Caribbean countries emulate the Irish model of FDI attraction? CEPAL Review #88, April 2006.   Foreign Direct Investment into Latin America Introduction In 1960 Ireland was one of the world’s poorest nations.  By 2004 it had become of the world’s wealthiest countries in terms of annual income per capita, USD 36,360; it had a large trade surplus of 38.4 billion … Continue reading Foreign direct investment into Latin America

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Pakistan, rebranded

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The Boston Globe By Imaduddin Ahmed and Kapil Komireddi March 25, 2010 Pop-star Ali Zafar GOOGLE “PAKISTAN is’’ and you’ll find a host of common searches: “a failed state,’’ “a terrorist country,’’ “doomed’’ and — encompassing all of the above — “the problem.’’ Pakistan’s image is both the effect and a potential cause of terrorism: it scares away business investments, and leaves jobless youth without opportunities, ripe for mullahs who promise riches in the afterlife. In significant ways, however, the actual security risks faced by private enterprises in Pakistan is no greater than the violent threat they face in India. … Continue reading Pakistan, rebranded

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Unraveling the World’s Best-Kept Secret

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Fletcher Features Imaduddin Ahmed | March 23, 2010 Medium-sized investments in sub-Saharan enterprises will help develop the region more than hand-outs, and return profit, say London financier and Kampala-industrialist In 1995, New York had more mobiles than the entire continent of Africa. This year, in spite of the low GDP per capita of the continent, it will have as many mobile phones as the USA. Nigeria, according to UNESCO, produces more feature films than the USA. More than 80% of African countries are politically stable, and the average return on foreign investment into Africa is about 30%. Yet, in the … Continue reading Unraveling the World’s Best-Kept Secret

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Conversations with the CEO: A profile of Richard Thoman, F67, F69, F71

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Fletcher Features February 26, 2010 Imaduddin Ahmed, F11, talks with the Chairman of the Fletcher Master of International Business program and a former Fletcher alumnus about how he came to lead the world’s largest corporations The former CEO of Xerox, CFO of IBM, President of Nabisco and co-CEO of American Express Travel Related Services, Professor Richard Thoman isn’t the least qualified person to converse with Fletcher students about ‘Managing the Global Corporation’, a class he offers in the fall semester. Thoman came to Fletcher a McGill graduate intending on joining the diplomatic service. He passed his exams. But that’s when … Continue reading Conversations with the CEO: A profile of Richard Thoman, F67, F69, F71

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What happened at Copenhagen and why China didn’t cooperate

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The Friday Times (Pakistan) Imaduddin Ahmed | Jan 8, 2010 With China projected by Goldman Sachs to overtake the US as the largest economy by 2030, the way for the US to remain the most dominant force in global politics will be by having China sign itself into US-led global governance structures The generally accepted view among the scientific community is that human activity, through greenhouse emissions (mainly in the form of carbon dioxide), has contributed significantly to global warming. Global warming isn’t irrelevant. According to the Nobel-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Pakistan can expect floods and rock … Continue reading What happened at Copenhagen and why China didn’t cooperate

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China’s economic rise will not make it the dominant political power

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Imaduddin Ahmed Tufts Roundtable Given its domestic market size, resources and untapped potential for leverage, China, according to Goldman Sachs’ projected rates of growth, is set to become the largest state economy by 2030.[1] The other BRIC economies, meanwhile, are projected to an aggregate economy worth half of the USA’s by that time, which will drop to the second largest economy. By 2050, China’s economy will, according to the same projections, be worth almost double the USA’s. The core EU states and Japan’s economies will have grown relatively little. A discussion, therefore, of China’s economy becoming the largest economy is … Continue reading China’s economic rise will not make it the dominant political power