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    Downloadable! The development and diffusion of antibiotics contributed to large improvements in human health and living standards. The antibiotic revolution also spawned the modern pharmaceutical industry. This paper reviews the development of the early antibiotics, and the roles of intellectual property rights (in particular, patents) in their development and diffusion. Though today the…

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    • An oldie but a goodie by Bhavan Sampat that describes the rise of pharmaceutical intellectual property rights in the 20th century. https://t.co/VdZvAmTJ5h

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    Downloadable! The development and diffusion of antibiotics contributed to large improvements in human health and living standards. The antibiotic revolution also spawned the modern pharmaceutical industry. This paper reviews the development of the early antibiotics, and the roles of intellectual property rights (in particular, patents) in their development and diffusion. Though today the…

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    • Sixth, Bhaven Sampat from @ColumbiaSPHSP has debunked the idea that innovation and IP necessarily go hand in hand, in several papers including this one. 9/ https://t.co/VdZvAnbktR

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    Downloadable (with restrictions)! The World Bank’s international poverty line (IPL) of $1.90/day at 2011 PPPs is based on a collection of national poverty lines provided in Ravallion et al. (World Bank Econ. Rev. 23(2), 163–184, 2009), originally used to set the IPL of $1.25/day at 2005 PPPs. This paper proposes an approach for estimating a more recent, complete and comparable collection of…

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    • @BrankoMilan Comparing global poverty data and national poverty lines isn’t straightforward and certainly doesn’t fit into tweets. For anyone who wants to properly understand how global poverty data can be compared with national poverty lines I’d recommend this paper: https://t.co/HPt5QduxK7