Economics
World Trade Begins at Home
IPN Opinion article
The rhetoric about who is to blame for failing to conclude trade agreements between Europe and Africa obscures a far more important point: Africa is never going to get rich while its governments restrict trade between its own countries, EU deals or not.
Private Solutions to the Eradication of Poverty: the Role of Title Insurance
Kirthimala Gunasekera will discuss both the theory of title insurance and her experiences developing and implementing such a system in her native Sri Lanka.
Taxing the sick
IPN Opinion article
Like many of its neighbours, Tanzania has condemned its poor to paying higher prices for medicine in order to help the prosperous owners of inefficient local drug companies: this is the true face of protectionism and it is a major obstacle to international trade agreement in the Doha 'Development Round.'
The Real Threat to European R&D
IPN Opinion article
It is governments, who undermine property rights and drive investment and business out of Europe, that are to blame for the falling levels and quality of European R&D, not new competition from the fast-growng countries of Asia.
