Correlation between patents & development : lessons from history -- The unequals : national realities and patent regimes of the developing world -- The international trade regime in perspective -- The poor nations harmonize -- The missing piece of the trips puzzle : procedural mechanisms -- TRIPS patent regime : the poverty penalty -- Is a substantive regime adequate to generate full compliance : the biotechnology debate -- Dying to dine -the story of the great agricultural barrier -- The debate on plant variety protection -- Harvesting poverty : the PBR story in a subsidy plot -- Biodiversity : the third but ignored paradigm of the trade regime -- Can the trade regime lead to sustainable development?.