Doha Development Round
Brazil's Dangerous Gamble
IPN Opinion article
US cotton subsidies are bad, but they are no reason for Brazil to undermine intellectual property rights.
Africa's Trade Barriers and Development
IPN Letters
A disproportionate number of trade barriers are imposed by African governments on other Africans.
Free Trade for the Poorest
IPN Opinion article
The leaders of the UK's Trade Out of Poverty Campaign write about what the G20 could achieve if only it would focus on removing trade barriers
When free trade means so little
IPN Opinion article
The new bilateral free-trade agreement between South Korea and India is not all it's cracked up to be: there are plenty of exceptions and the package will take 10 years to implement. An Indian and a South Korean analyst argue here that fully free trade is the best possible way of recovering from the global slump.
Be afraid of a replay of '70s-style protectionism
IPN Opinion article
WORLD leaders have pledged that there will be no repeat of the 1930s, when tit-for-tat protectionism turned a recession caused by the Wall Street crash into a decade-long depression. But it is a replay of the creeping protectionism of the 1970s that we should worry about.
Unleashing African Growth
IPN Opinion article
Despite the collapse of the Doha trade talks, some countries are making unilateral reforms to speed up trade: a World Bank report and recent reforms in Africa show there are huge benefits available without any international negotiation or agreeement. Compare this progress with the damage done by aid, perpetuating poverty, corruption and protectionism.
Weep not for Doha
IPN Opinion article
The Doha Round has staggered to a slow death, with dire predictions of what will befall us, but this research shows the cheerful news that trade is expanding massively without the WTO and that unilateral bureaucratic reforms can be even more valuable to trade than tariff reductions.
