The sheer number of agreements, all of which cover slightly different products and contain different rules, will dramatically complicate logistics in a region that epitomises the global trend towards decentralised production.As these agreements gradually reduce bilateral tariffs, Asia will be riven by trade discrimination between different countries.
This evidence suggests that although price discrimination between MLICs countries could in theory be a profit-maximizing (and welfare enhancing) strategy for originators, and generics are widely available, PCI-related pricing is undermined if income distributions are skewed and/or competition focuses on brand, rather than price, due to asymmetric and uncertain quality of generics.
(Interview 8) For the sexual and reproductive health and rights community, maternal mortality was a reproductive health rights issue requiring a broad based structural response addressing gender discrimination and the power imbalances within and between countries.
The exact prevalence of NTM disease is unknown because reporting is not mandatory in many countries and discrimination between colonization and active disease can be challenging.
As well as depriving the child from his right for protection from violence and discrimination, besides other forms of deprivation which eventually lead to discrimination between citizens within the same country and inequality of opportunity in the future, without those children having any hand in that".
An alternative argument [ 21] is that governments will prevent price discrimination between high- and low-income countries, but this argument also applies to preventive medicines and does not specifically disadvantage vaccines.
"What it needs is transparency, better and more equitable investment, and it needs to iron out the discrimination between the [richer] west of the country and the [poorer] east of the country".
Standards vary between countries.
Costs differ between countries, too.
Superficially, there are big differences between countries.
But there are big differences between countries.
