Social Issues
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.
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.
Obamacare failed in Europe
IPN Opinion article
President Obama's health reforms envisage a far bigger role for government. France and Britain demonstrate that this direction of travel will neither save money nor improve patient care.
Yes, Zimbabwe can
IPN Opinion article
President Obama's offer of AIDS relief to Zimbabwe is conditional on it not going anywhere near the pockets of Mugabe and his gang. But the good news is that there are many things Zimbabweans can do themselves to restore prosperity, even with Robert Mugabe still at the helm: all is not lost, despite the horrors of recent years. This author is part of a group of African think-tanks that compiled a list of practical and relatively simple policy recommendations for recovery in the recent The Zimbabwe Papers.
Europe's free, state-run health care has drawbacks
IPN News coverage
IPN's Philip Stevens comments on what lessons the US can learn from Europe as it reforms its health sector.
Zimbabwe: Keeping hope alive in time of Cholera
IPN Opinion article
Zimbabwe can recover - if its people are allowed to. For all the catastrophic policies of President Robert Mugabe, there are still enough experienced and dedicated business people, judges, civil servants and even policemen to make the country work again once the right freedoms are in place.
