Alec van Gelder
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.
Social activists celebrate 10 years of flagship movement
IPN News coverage
Alec van Gelder analyses the World Social Forum
APEC Leaders: Practice What You Preach on Trade
IPN Press release
Alec van Gelder calls on APEC leaders to lead by example and reject protectionism
G20 MUST ACT NOW TO STOP ESCALATING PROTECTIONISM
IPN Press release
The global Freedom to Trade Campaign today challenges G20 leaders convening in Pittsburgh to focus on the biggest threat to economic recovery and long-term prosperity: escalating protectionism.
Starbucks, Ethiopia and Oxfam
IPN Opinion article
Oxfam is wrong to criticise Starbuck's in a coffee trademark dispute involving the Ethiopian government. Coffee growers need the rule of law, not the rule of Oxfam, explains Alec van Gelder.
G7 plus 1: the elephant in the dining room
IPN Opinion article
Ahead of the St Petersburg G8 meeting, taking place on 15-17 July, Alec van Gelder questions Russia's presence in a club of industrialised democracies.
How can a laptop make dirty water clean?
IPN Opinion article
Alec van Gelder argues that providing the world's poorest with $100 laptops will not solve their more immediate problems like drinking dirty water. Furthermore, diverting resources to new technologies without addressing the fundamental reasons why poverty is rife will not help bridge the "development divide".
