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Don’t slash spending – re-think it

IPN Opinion article

Author: Eamonn Butler

The strikes in Greece against budget cuts are a warning to all the other governments which have dug themselves into deep debt.  But the good news for some - including Obama's new National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform - is that budget reform can be done: Canada did it the mid-'90s.

Propaganda by Proxy: How the EU funds green lobby groups

IPN 
Press release

The European Union is funding some of the most powerful environmental NGOs in Brussels – while in turn, they lobby the EU for more money and influence.

Is Fairtrade the way to address poverty in the Global South?

Alec van Gelder argues the pros and cons of Fairtrade as an instrument of poverty alleviation

Is the world going to run out of food?

IPN Environment Project Director, Caroline Boin, will debate the "countdown to starvation."

Stop turning cheap food into expensive fuel

IPN Opinion article

Author: Caroline Boin

Biofuels don't make sense for the environment, the economy or the taxpayer.

Chinese exports are ours too

IPN Opinion article

Author: Daniel Ikenson

China demonstrates the virtues of economic interdependence and a globalised economy

Africa calling

IPN Opinion article

Author: Alec van Gelder

Mobile phones have transformed the lives of millions Africans for the better - but Ethiopia's government has stifled the ICT industry