...cial edition. © 2002, 2003 Copyright Lidija Rangelovska. All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used ... ...ed markets have sometimes substituted price fixing, extended intellectual property rights, and competitive restraint for market regulation. Still, ... ...e "health safeguards" built into the Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) convention allow for compulsory licensing - manu... ...cial Rapporteurs in a report submitted last year to the UN sub- Commission on Human Rights and titled "Globalization and its Impact on the Full Enjo... ...s such as GDP per capita or average wages. Why didn't drug prices adjust to reflect indigenous purchasing power? According to the Paris-based In... ... to finance the insatiable consumption of its denizens and to prop up a variety of indigenous asset bubbles. Still, as any first year student of or... ... hubris. This is not conducive to happy co-existence between foreign do-gooders and indigenous governments. Sometimes NGO's seem to be an ingenious ... ...and institutions. They are powerful, rich, and care less about the welfare of the indigenous population than about "universal" principles of ethic... ...tify military interventions. They maintain commercial interests which compete with indigenous manufacturers. They provoke unrest in many a place. A...

...n-commercial edition. © 2004-7 Copyright Lidija Rangelovska. All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used ... ...tory behaviours and proscribes certain acts or omissions. This Janus-like nature of rights and duties as two sides of the same ethical coin - create... ...of the same ethical coin - creates great confusion. People often and easily confuse rights and their attendant duties or obligations with the morall... ... one's life terminated IA. The Right to be Brought to Life Only living people have rights. There is a debate whether an egg is a living person - bu... ... whether an egg is a living person - but there can be no doubt that it exists. Its rights - whatever they are - derive from the fact that it exists... ...ions on the eagerly duped, naive, bewildered masses. The deceit was evident to the indigenous cynics - but it was the failure that dissuaded them a... ...ks, and investors. Six years later, President Vladimir Putin dismantled Yukos, the indigenous oil giant and confiscated its assets, in stark contra...