Medios

IPN Opinion article

February 10, 2007
An outbreak of chikungunya in Italy has been blamed on global warming but this cold-weather mosquito is actually carried by the trade in used tyres. As world leaders discuss far-reaching climate policies, it is time to stick to the science and nothing but the science.

IPN Opinion article

February 2, 2007
Julian Morris advocates a more rational approach to road pricing in the UK.

IPN Critical Opinion articles

November 6, 2006

IPN Opinion article

August 8, 2006
Doha was not defeated by intransigent trade negotiators. Rather, the culprits were self-seeking domestic interest groups on all sides, which hinder national governments from making further trade 'concessions'. These producer lobbies exert growing control over sovereign governments, with the consequence that they prevent other, less well-organised, groups of fellow citizens from reaping the considerable benefits of freer international trade and investment.

IPN Critical Opinion articles

August 3, 2006

IPN Opinion article

August 1, 2006
The sweeping victory of Evo Morales in Bolivia's recent presidential election marks another step back in Latin America from slow liberalization and free trade toward socialism and anti-Americanism: a few U.S. corporations may suffer a little but the real victims, as ever, will be the poor.

IPN Critical Opinion articles

July 31, 2006

IPN Opinion article

July 27, 2006
Franklin Cudjoe tells the Ghanaian minister of health how high tariffs and taxes on imported medicines in Ghana are driving people to traditional quack cures or to cheap counterfeit medicines.

IPN Opinion article

January 30, 2006
Science requires measurement. But not all measurement is scientific. The newest example is the Environmental Performance Index (EPI), released at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland -- a compilation of data on the alleged state of the environment in 133 countries.

IPN Opinion article

January 11, 2006
Scaremongers and anti-trade activists have been conjuring up apocalyptic scenarios if Malaysia and the United States agree on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). But an FTA with the US would improve Malaysian growth and all the other good things associated with prosperity: better medicines, higher investment and more jobs.