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Compulsory licensing no solution to health problems in poor countries, say experts from India, Argentina, Canada and South Africa.
IPN Press release
Global Warming - A European Myth
IPN Opinion article
On Monday 18th June, Professor Philip Stott of London University, SOAS, will speak at the IEA about 'The European Myth of Global Warming'.
Aids has no cure - remember?
IPN Opinion article
It does seem paradoxical -- nay, tragic -- that the world may end up spending tens of billions of dollars annually to provide painful, only moderately successful treatment to prolong life, while not making millions of people healthy from curable diseases like malaria for only a few billion. In these days of emotional politics, perhaps the rich world will only spend money on diseases with which it has some familiarity.
New Study Shows Tragic Consequences of Environmentalists' Campaign to Ban DDT
IPN Opinion article
Press release announcing publication of "Malaria and the DDT Story"
The wealth of nations depends on how open they are to international trade
IPN Opinion article
Virginia Postrel elaborates on the benefits of trade: "By allowing nations, organizations and individuals to specialize in what they do best, trade makes more goods and services available to everyone, raising living standards for all. Open international trade has indirect advantages as well. By increasing competition, it spurs producers to find ways to reduce costs and, hence, prices to consumers -- again, increasing living standards. And it spreads knowledge and skill. People all over the world gain access to the best technologies and most productive business practices."
Alarmist Greens continue to fool a nervous public
IPN Opinion article
\"Like the scares promoted in Our Stolen Future on Earth Day five years ago, the case of earlier puberty is not established. But by the time this scare is discredited, as it almost certainly will be, the greens will have moved on to a new scare, and the public will be erroneously convinced that synthetic chemicals are causing all sorts of harmful effects...\"
Free market best by test
IPN Opinion article
\"Antiglobalists insist anything big and market oriented is bad. But the major problem in the third world is the lack of capital, knowledge and technology. The most efficient way to transfer this is through foreign investments. Investors have transferred 1-trillion to the developing countries in the past decade more than all aid since the Second World War.\"
Without DDT, malaria bites back
IPN Opinion article
"Malaria is on the increase in all tropical regions of the planet - especially in Africa. In 2000, the disease killed more than one million people and made 300 million seriously ill.
According to Professor Wen Kilama of the African Malaria Vaccine Testing Network in Tanzania, 'Malaria is equivalent to crashing seven jumbo jets filled with children every day'..."
