Africa
What Purpose Unitaid’s Patent Pool?
Miércoles, Junio 16, 2010
This paper examines the wisdom of Unitaid's new patent pool for AIDS treatments, considering the weaknesses in the case for such a pool, the lessons from historical examples and the likely consequences for research and development.
Rwanda needs the freedom to disagree with Kagame
IPN Letters
Rwanda's President Kagame is good on economic freedom, but political freedom is just as important, argues IPN's Chairman, Linda Whetstone
Africa calling
IPN Opinion article
Mobile phones have transformed the lives of millions Africans for the better - but Ethiopia's government has stifled the ICT industry
Free Africans for global trade
IPN Opinion article
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.
Music, money and growth
IPN Opinion article
African music is loved all over the world but African musicians live in poverty: the few stars record and publish abroad. These authors explain how Africans can develop that talent into commercial success as the impoverished city of Nashville did in the 1920s, becoming a musical and economic dynamo.
Calls for Africa to make own Aids drugs dangerous
IPN Opinion article
Local production of drugs is a long-standing slogan in the aid industry and in many individual countries and has now been taken up by the African Union. But its superficial attraction hides vested interests, expensive subsidies and dangers to quality.
UN Disarms Weapon of Malarial Destruction
IPN Opinion article
DDT is much-demonised by superstitious Westerners but it has saved millions of lives all over the world (including the USA and Europe) and continues to save lives in Africa. But not for much longer: the WHO's reluctant acceptance of DDT in 2006 has been reversed in favour of a range of human experiments using poor people as guinea-pigs.
