ü  What country is the biggest provider of cheap medicines?

India.

ü  What is one of the most contentious issues between developed countries and the developing world?

The debate over global drug pricing.

ü  Why do poorer nations have a moral obligation to make cheaper medicine?

They have to make generic drugs available to their populations.

ü  What is the use of the drug called Glivec?

The drug provides such effective treatment for some form of leukemia.

ü  What institution approved Glivec as medicine in the United States?

The Food and Drug Administration, in 2001 in record time.

ü  How much money does India export in generic medicine every year?

India exports about $10 billion worth of generic medicine every year.

ü  What do India and China produce together?

India and China produce together more than 80 percent of the active ingredients of all drugs used in the United States.

Link of the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/business/global/top-court-in-india-rejects-novartis-drug-patent.html?hp&_r=0