Socioeconomics
What population apocalypse is affecting us now?
IPN Opinion article
World Population Day: The problem is not population, but poverty.
The WHO blueprint for increasing global poverty
IPN Opinion article
The WHO's report on the "social determinants of health" claims that inequality is responsible for huge numbers of deaths worldwide. But by rejecting economic growth, its recommendations would do far more harm than good.
Trusting the African private sector with aid
IPN Opinion article
Because it is channeled through corrupt and dysfunctional ministries of health, most foreign aid for health never makes it to patients. Donors should abandon this model and instead take advantage of Africa's massive private sector.
Slum dwellers need rights not projects
IPN Opinion article
India's slum population has doubled to 61.8 million in 20 years and more than half the world's population will live in cities by next year. UN Habitat has called for more plans to 'stabilise the unplanned and chaotic aspects of urban growth.' But grandiose schemes simply ignore the underlying problems ó and will probably make them worse.
