World Trade Organization

Brazil's Dangerous Gamble

IPN Opinion article

Author: Alec van Gelder

US cotton subsidies are bad, but they are no reason for Brazil to undermine intellectual property rights.

Africa's Trade Barriers and Development

IPN Letters

Author: Alec van Gelder

A disproportionate number of trade barriers are imposed by African governments on other Africans.

Be afraid of a replay of '70s-style protectionism

IPN Opinion article

Author: Fredrik Erixon

WORLD leaders have pledged that there will be no repeat of the 1930s, when tit-for-tat protectionism turned a recession caused by the Wall Street crash into a decade-long depression. But it is a replay of the creeping protectionism of the 1970s that we should worry about.