Investment case for tobacco control in Burkina Faso
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2024-05-09
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9240092609
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Investment case for tobacco control in Ghana
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2024-05-06
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9240092625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Trouble with Foreign Investor Protection
Author: Gus Van Harten
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-10-30
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0192635905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGovernments are rightly discussing reform of investment treaties, and of the incredibly powerful system of 'investor-state dispute settlement' (ISDS) upon which they rest. At their core, ISDS treaties are flawed because they very firmly institute wealth-based inequality under international law. In this book, Van Harten explores these claims in the light of the history of early ISDS treaties showing their ties to decolonization and, at times, extreme violence and authoritarianism. Focusing on early ISDS lawsuits and rulings, it is revealed how a small group of lawyers and arbitrators worked to create the legal foundations for massive growth of ISDS since 2000. ISDS-based protections are examined in detail to demonstrate how they give exceptional advantages to the wealthy. Various examples are also offered of how the protections have been used to reconfigure state decision-making and shift sovereign minds in favour of foreign investors. Lastly, the ongoing efforts of governments to reform ISDS are surveyed, with a call to go further or, best of all, to withdraw from the treaties. This book is essential reading for anyone wanting to know more about the shady world of investment protection.
WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2017
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2017-08-28
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789241512824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe report "Monitoring tobacco use and prevention policies" tracks the status of the tobacco epidemic and interventions to combat it. The report finds that more countries have implemented tobacco control policies, ranging from graphic pack warnings and advertising bans to no smoking areas. About 4.7 billion people - 63% of the world's population - are covered by at least one comprehensive tobacco control measure, which has quadrupled since 2007 when only 1 billion people and 15% of the world's population were covered.
Intellectual Property as a Complex Adaptive System
Author: Kamperman Sanders, Anselm
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2021-12-07
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1800378386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis incisive book examines the role of Intellectual Property (IP) as a complex adaptive system in innovation and the lifecycle of IP intensive assets. Discussing recent innovation trends, it places emphasis on how different forms of intellectual property law can facilitate these trends. Inventors and entrepreneurs are guided through the lifecycle of IP intensive assets that commercialise human creativity. Utilising a range of sector specific, interdisciplinary and actor-focused approaches, each contribution offers suggestions on how Europe’s capacity to foster innovation-based sustainable economic growth can be enhanced on a global scale.
The Millennium Development Goals and Tobacco Control
Author: Katharine M. Esson
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789241562874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study demonstrates the relevance of tobacco control in achieving each of the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals. It outlines the occurrence of the high yet increasing prevalence of tobacco use in the developing world, and documents the negative impact that tobacco cultivation and tobacco-use have on poverty and development. Global partnership is deemed to be important in strengthening tobacco control, which all nations and their development agencies are urged to address as an aspect of policy. The study recommends that tobacco control should be included as a vital ingredient contributing towards the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals. To this end, countries are encouraged to become Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which is an essential tool to bring about tobacco control in all countries, whatever their stage of socioeconomic development.
The Tobacco Atlas
Author: Judith Mackay
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9789241562096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearch in the past five years suggests a bleak picture of the health dangers of smoking, with tobacco the biggest single killer of all forms of pollution. It is estimated that one person dies every ten seconds due to smoking-related diseases. This publication considers the history and current position regarding tobacco use, as well as providing some predictions for the future of the tobacco epidemic upto the year 2050. It contains a number of full-colour world maps and graphics to illustrate the variations between countries and regions. Issues discussed include: tobacco prevalence and consumption; youth smoking; the economics of tobacco farming and manufacturing; smuggling; the tobacco industry, promotion, profits and trade; smokers' rights; legislative action such as smoke-free areas, tobacco advertising bans and health warnings.
Macroeconomics and Health
Author: Jeffrey Sachs
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2001-12
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 924154550X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes a strategy for investing in health for economic development, especially in the world's poorest countries. The report proposes a partnership of developing and developed countries, to save eight million lives yearly, in developing countries from infectious diseases and maternal conditions.
Dun & Bradstreet Exporters' Encyclopaedia
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Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 1838
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaterial is arranged geographically. For each country there is a country profile followed by information on marketing data, communications, transportation, business travel, key contacts, and a summary trade regulations and documentation required. Also included are brief sections on U.S. ports, U.S. foreign trade zones, World Trade Center Association members, U.S. government agencies providing assistance to exporters, foreign trade organizations, foreign communications, and general exports and shipping information and practice.
WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2009
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789241563918
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSecond in a series of WHO reports on the global tobacco epidemic. Tracks the status of the tobacco epidemic and the impact of interventions implemented to stop it.
