Opinion article
G20 Leaders Need Crash Course on Global Economy
IPN Opinion article
G20 leaders need to learn that protectionism makes no sense when times are good, and it's especially misguided in a recession.
Hijacking Human Rights
IPN Opinion article
New definitions and interpretations of "human rights" threaten real rights -- and now this argument is being dragged into the debate about climate change
Don't throttle trade
IPN Opinion article
Trade barriers are springing up all over the world as protectionism rears its ugly head, led by the Buy American provisions of President Obama's stimulus package. This is doing real and increasing harm not just to trading partners but Americans themselves: free trade is the best way out of the global recession so we all need to fight for its survival.
The Health Care Math Everyone Avoids
IPN Opinion article
Whatever the merits of President Obama's healthcare plan, someone will have to pay for it - but there will be fewer and fewer taxpayers and more and more healthcare-dependants as time goes by. It is a calculation that everyone wants to avoid.
The pitfalls of protectionism shown by Brazil and Mexico
IPN Opinion article
Brazil and Mexico are in danger of going down the path blazed by Venezuela: after years of opening up trade and improving their economies they are reintroducing protectionism in oil and gas. This energy analyst describes how the real patriotic move would be to stimulate exploitation - and therefore employment and the economy - by welcoming foreign firms instead of coddling state-run and domestic firms.
Ghana: Unchaining country's melodies
IPN Opinion article
Ghana's untapped source of wealth lies in the creative talents of songwriters, composers, and bands.
Curb the Population Myth
IPN Opinion article
President Obama has ended the ban on federal funds imposed by the Bush Administration on groups that promote or perform abortions abroad and on the United Nations Population Fund. He must take this opportunity to put pressure on the UNFPA to concentrate on the health of women and babies ó and to stop wasting money assaulting the poor with wrongheaded population-control schemes.
Drowning a single illness in cash will do more harm than good
IPN Opinion article
Donors are beginning to realise that spending disproportionate sums on AIDS is undermining overall primary healthcare.
Stop enabling Kenya's kleptocrats
IPN Opinion article
Michela Wrong's new book on Kenyan corruption-buster John Githongo has been an immediate hit, serialised in Kenya's Daily Nation and selling fast everywhere. This characteristically outspoken review by Sir Edward Clay explains why.
Sir Edward was British High Commissioner in Nairobi at the time of the Githongo saga and was reprimanded by his own masters and the Kenyan government for his comments on corruption. He has a strong message for aid donors whose largesse supports ruling cliques in Africa.
What population apocalypse is affecting us now?
IPN Opinion article
World Population Day: The problem is not population, but poverty.
