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Bridge the digital divide

IPN Opinion article

Author: Alec van Gelder

Use of ICT along with an open economy will help developing economies to grow faster and catch up with developed ones.

Not working for the Yankee dollar

IPN Opinion article

Author: Rigoberto Stewart

The sweeping victory of Evo Morales in Bolivia's recent presidential election marks another step back in Latin America from slow liberalization and free trade toward socialism and anti-Americanism: a few U.S. corporations may suffer a little but the real victims, as ever, will be the poor.

High tariffs on drugs breed counterfeit medicines

IPN Opinion article

Franklin Cudjoe tells the Ghanaian minister of health how high tariffs and taxes on imported medicines in Ghana are driving people to traditional quack cures or to cheap counterfeit medicines.

G7 plus 1: the elephant in the dining room

IPN Opinion article

Author: Alec van Gelder

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.

Cold dark future for Europe – Illarionov

IPN 
Press release

A ‘chilly war’ has already begun, says Putin’s former advisor, in which the very basic pillars of Western society are at stake.