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Study of Gates Foundation shows global influence
IPN News coverage
IPN's Philip Stevens comments on a new Lancet study which calls for more accountability from the world's largest health philanthropist.
Experts: UN program to save children didn't work
IPN News coverage
IPN's Philip Stevens comments on a Lancet study revealing the limited progress made by a UN health programme in Bangladesh.
$196 billion; little proof UN health programs work
IPN News coverage
IPN's Philip Stevens comments on new Lancet study examining progress in global health.
Pay up ... or the planet gets it
IPN Opinion article
Julian Morris comments on the UK government's proposals for green taxes
Let the poor have water
IPN Opinion article
This article discusses the Fourth World Water Forum in Mexico City, which was "marred by a series of logistical nightmares". The situation is the same in many poor countries, where governments prevent millions of poor people from obtaining clean water.
Politicians: hands off our water
IPN Opinion article
Does Southeast England really have a "water crisis" -- and if so, what is the solution?
Paying for our water would make us value each drop
IPN Opinion article
"One practical way forward is charted in a new booklet, The Water Revolution, from the International Policy Network, a London-based think-tank. Its editor, Kendra Okonski, has collected a series of narratives from around the world that show that if there is ownership of water in some form, then it will be better used. These examples include small dams in villages in Gujarat, designed to catch run-off, and informal "illegal" entrepreneurs who put in water systems in African cities to solve the water and sanitation problems left by government."
The Internet: Why it isn't a panacea for poor countries
IPN Opinion article
Alec van Gelder argues that barriers to technological development are the same barriers that hold back economic development in poor countries generally: an absence of the enforceable contracts and property rights, excessive duties on imported goods, and burdensome market restrictions. This week's UN World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis is a good opportunity to draw attention to these real barriers to development.
Click here to read a Spanish-language version of this article in La Nacion, Argentina.
