Commercial piracy, where a firm (hereafter referred to as the pirate) illegally reproduces and sells copies of legitimate products thereby competing with the original producer, has emerged as one of the leading global challenges faced by software businesses, entertainment industry, law enforcement agencies, and international trade partners. This issue assumes importance not only because of...

There is a very real danger that the transition from the Construction Boom in 2009 to a rapidly growing sustainable normal economy in Aceh will not happen unless both preventive and effective constructive measures are implemented during the coming two years. Instead what could easily happen is a collapse into a deep recession caused by...

This paper examines the effect of international patent stock on total factor productivity for 16 OECD countries over the past 120 years. The results show that the international patent stock is highly influential for economic growth and, together with knowledge spillovers through the channel of imports, has contributed significantly to TFP growth and σ-convergence among...

This is the text of a recent speech by Paul Hunt, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, in which he asks: what does the right to health mean?

The common law assumes that private individuals only take court action to protect their private interests. The common law also assumes that the only party who approaches the courts to uphold the public interest is the Attorney-General. Both these assumptions are now outdated and wrong, argues Brian Walters in this overview of recent legal battles...