Trade Therapy : Deepening Cooperation to Strengthen Pandemic Defenses

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the upsides and downsides of international trade in medical goods and services. Open trade can increase access to medical services and goods (and the critical inputs needed to manufacture them), improve quality and variety, and reduce costs. But excessive concentrat...

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Main Authors:	World Bank, World Trade Organization
Format:	Book
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2022
Subjects:	HEALTHCARE HEALTH MARKET HEALTH TRADE PANDEMIC COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS GLOBAL TRADE MARKETS MULTILATERAL
Online Access:	https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/099427406022240207/idu035ccddd30ce3b0465f0a97d0f2ce539a2f7f http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37494

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description	The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the upsides and downsides of international trade in medical goods and services. Open trade can increase access to medical services and goods (and the critical inputs needed to manufacture them), improve quality and variety, and reduce costs. But excessive concentration of production, restrictive trade policies, supply chain disruptions, and regulatory divergence can jeopardize the ability of public health systems to respond to pandemics and other health crises. This report, coordinated by Nadia Rocha and Michele Ruta at the World Bank and Marc Bacchetta and Joscelyn Magdeleine at the WTO, provides new data on trade in medical goods and services and medical value chains; surveys the evolving policy landscape before and during the pandemic; and proposes an action plan to improve trade policies and deepen international cooperation to deal with future pandemics.
format	Book
author	World Bank World Trade Organization
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title	Trade Therapy : Deepening Cooperation to Strengthen Pandemic Defenses
title_short	Trade Therapy : Deepening Cooperation to Strengthen Pandemic Defenses
title_full	Trade Therapy : Deepening Cooperation to Strengthen Pandemic Defenses
title_fullStr	Trade Therapy : Deepening Cooperation to Strengthen Pandemic Defenses
title_full_unstemmed	Trade Therapy : Deepening Cooperation to Strengthen Pandemic Defenses
title_sort	trade therapy : deepening cooperation to strengthen pandemic defenses
publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate	2022
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Trade Therapy : Deepening Cooperation to Strengthen Pandemic Defenses

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