期刊名称：European Journal of Economic and Political Studies
印刷版ISSN：1307-6000
电子版ISSN：1307-6035
出版年度：2009
期号：1
页码：21-38
语种：English
出版社：Fatih University
摘要：It is obvious that there is so little R&D on diseases disproportionably affecting underdeveloped countries while there is so much need for them. Unfortunately proposed solutions in the literature have not eliminated the problem completely. In this paper I try to answer why there is so little R&D on poor country diseases question and propose an alternative patent mechanism to encourage more R&D. Increasing the patent length from its current 20 year period for the diseases which are disproportionally affecting the poor countries would certainly increase R&D investments and can be socially optimal. Thus I suggest that in contrast to the current and past practice the poor countries should provide a higher patent protection for pharmaceutical drugs than developed countries.
