Africa

Free Africans for global trade

IPN Opinion article

Author: Emmanuel Martin

The bad news is that the Doha "development" talks on free-trade limped back into view at the WTO in November with nothing new to be said, which sounds pretty boring, but the good news is that developing countries can ignore all that and make huge progress unilaterally and regionally.

Copyright piracy has made it expensive to produce our films

IPN Opinion article

Author: Alec van Gelder

Africa’s creative industries could be great success stories but they are held back by weak copyright protection.

Bad policies, not weather, create famine

IPN Opinion article

Author: Julian Morris

Julian Morris & Karol Boudreaux analyse the underlying causes of famine

Pay more attention to silent killers

IPN Opinion article

Author: Philip Stevens

HIV/AIDS is a high profile disease that has received a disproportionately high amount of funding and attention, relative to "silent killers" such as pneumonia and diarrhoea

Fixing Famine: How Technologies & Incentives Can Help Feed Africa

Author: Jasson Urbach

Publication date:

Sunday, November 15, 2009

A study about technologies that can improve food security and the wellbeing of smallholder farmers, based on field work in Malawi and Kenya

UN: 200 million kids have stunted growth

IPN News coverage

Author: Philip Stevens

The UN believes the solution lies in more foreign aid: Philip Stevens, of the IPN, disagrees.

Medical aid group raises alarm about AIDS funding

IPN News coverage

Author: Philip Stevens

Mistaken calls for additional AIDs funding

Annual Intellectual Property Rights Indaba

Author: Alec van Gelder

Innovation, economic growth and job creation: The role of intellectual property rights