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EU Consumers to Foot Bill for Protectionism
IPN Opinion article
Europe's trade barriers hamper trade and economic recovery.
Obamacare failed in Europe
IPN Opinion article
President Obama's health reforms envisage a far bigger role for government. France and Britain demonstrate that this direction of travel will neither save money nor improve patient care.
Health tourism can be healthy
IPN Opinion article
The benefits of trade have for too long been driven away from healthcare by ring-fenced nationalised systems and vested interests. Now evidence suggests that trade can slow the rise in healthcare costs and be a valuable source of revenue for developing countries.
TRIPping Up Property Rights
IPN Opinion article
After years of campaigning, activists have narrowed the debate about health care in poor countries to a single premise: intellectual property rights restrict access to medicines. But this discussion takes energy away from the things that really matter: infrastructure, doctors, nurses.
The elephant in the dining room
IPN Opinion article
With much of the pre-G8 talk devoted to Africa and climate change, this year's agenda should really be about Russia's undeserved place in a gathering of industrialised democracies.
Death in the shade of world's attention
IPN Opinion article
Millions of cancer and cardiovascular deaths could be cheaply averted in poorer countries, but it seems sometimes that HIV/AIDS is the only thing on the radarscreen of politicians and journalists.
G7 plus 1: the elephant in the dining room
IPN Opinion article
Ahead of the St Petersburg G8 meeting, taking place on 15-17 July, Alec van Gelder questions Russia's presence in a club of industrialised democracies.
The poor are just like everyone else
IPN Opinion article
Franklin Cudjoe responds in the Financial Times to Christian Aid's claim that development in Africa can only be achieved by the redistribution of wealth.
