Desai on globalization

Joseph Raso rasoj at hotmail.com
Tue Feb 20 23:48:54 PST 2001



>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>


>During the interview, he got quite upset about the fact that the >World
>Bank is lending money to African countries so they can set up >their own
>patent & trademark offices - protecting First World IP rent >at the expense
>of some of the poorest countries on earth. Lovely, eh?
>
>Doug

That is lovely. So African countries get to accumulate more debt in order to safeguard an IP regime undermining their own welfare and development.

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