IPN Press Releases

2008 Bastiat Prize Finalists Announced

2008-08-05
Announcing the six finalists for IPN's 2008 Bastiat Prize for Journalism.
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G8 should abandon current model of aid for health - new report
Media Release
2008-07-03
Too much foreign aid for health fails to reach those in need, instead falling prey to corruption, mismanagement and waste. By involving private organisations and outcome-based contracts these failings can be overcome, argues Philip Stevens in a new report.
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How to Avoid the Collapse of Global Fish Stocks
Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development
2008-05-12
The second issue of the Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development considers how to best conserve global fish stocks.
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One in Three malaria drugs failing in Africa - new study

2008-05-06
A new survey of antimalarial drugs in Africa has discovered a third to be substandard, putting millions of patients at risk.
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Cut food prices - Cut tariffs and subsidies

2008-04-16
Ethanol subsidies in wealthy countries are partially to blame for rising food prices. But by imposing tariffs on imports and exports, the governments of poor countries are just as responsible.
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Announcing the Bastiat Prize for Journalism 2008

2008-04-01
The Bastiat Prize 2008 is now open for submissions until the 30 June 2008. This year's prize fund is US$15,000. To enter, or for the complete rules and judging criteria for this year’s competition, please visit www.bastiatprize.org.
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Poor need better property laws - report

2008-02-26
People in countries that protect their physical and intellectual property enjoy a GDP per capita up to nine times greater than those without legal protection, the 2008 edition of the International Property Rights Index (IPRI), reveals. Countries that protect property rights provide an essential foundation for peace, stability and prosperity, the Index shows. Its calculations cover 115 countries, representing 96% of the world’s GDP.
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Turkish Court Set to Jail Professor for Allegedly “Insulting the Memory of Ataturk”

2008-01-17
Atilla Yayla, Professor of Political Philosophy at Gazi University in Ankara, Turkey, and founder of the Association for Liberal Thinking in Turkey, faces a prison sentence for allegedly "insulting the memory of Ataturk" in public.
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Bali climate talks: World Health Organization betraying the poor

2007-12-10
The Campaign for Fighting Diseases calls on the WHO to stop promoting poverty and ill health by advocating global caps on carbon emissions.
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Indian Journalist Wins 2007 Frederic Bastiat Prize for Journalism

2007-10-25
The sixth annual Bastiat Prize for Journalism was awarded to Indian journalist Amit Varma, an editorial columnist for Mint (a joint venture between the Wall Street Journal and India’s Hindustan Times).
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Let the Poor Have Water- Not Ideology

2007-08-13
If water activists remain blinkered by ideology and continue to oppose private water provision, the situation will not get better for 1 billion people without clean and safe water.
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Finalists Announced for 2007 Bastiat Prize for Journalism

2007-08-08
International Policy Network today announced the six finalists for the sixth annual Bastiat Prize for Journalism. The Prize – named in honour of the great 19th Century French philosopher and essayist Frédéric Bastiat – celebrates writers whose work cleverly and wittily promotes the institutions of the free society.
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Global Over-population a Myth- New Report

2007-07-11
A new report by Professor Nicholas Eberstadt, released today by the Sustainable Development Network, shows that there is no reason for the UN and other influental groups to support population control.
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Announcing the Bastiat Prize for Journalism 2007

2007-04-01
The Bastiat Prize 2007 is now open for submissions until the 30 June 2007. This year's prize fund is USD $15,000. To enter, or for the complete rules and judging criteria for this year’s competition, please visit www.bastiatprize.org.
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New Index and report highlights importance of property rights for economic development

2007-03-06
London - A new international index show that the property rights (both real and intellectual) promote economic growth: countries with strong property rights on average have faster growth, while those with weaker property rights grow more slowly. Countries with the weakest property rights are also the poorest.
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Alarmist claims in UN Climate Change Report Refuted

2007-02-05
A new report, Independent Summary for Policymakers, released today by the Fraser Institute, calls into questions many of the claims made in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Policymakers Summary released on Friday in Paris. The Fraser Institute is a member of the Civil Society Coalition on Climate Change.
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26 Organisations Form Global Coalition to Challenge Unjustified Alarmism, Promote Rational Debate

2007-02-01
In advance of the release of the latest alarmist report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of 26 civil society organisations, from 23 countries, has formed a new global coalition. The Civil Society Coalition on Climate Change seeks to offer a more rational approach to the issue, based on independent evaluations of the evidence and assessments of the policy options.
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Message to governments seeking solutions to poverty: Get out of the way!

2007-01-08
London: A new report – to be highlighted on Newsnight on 8 January 2007 – shows what happens when governments get out of the way and enable entrepreneurs to flourish. The Cell Phone Revolution in Kenya released today by International Policy Network, a London-based development charity, and Istituto Bruno Leoni, a Milan -based think tank, shows what happened when the Kenyan government allowed private companies to compete against the government-owned telecommunications company.
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IPN's Chairman Linda Whetstone Pays Respects to Economist Milton Friedman

2006-11-17

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Stop the counterfeit drugs problem at its source, urges think tank

2006-11-15
In order to tackle the rising flood of counterfeit medicines, the legal systems of less developed countries need to be reformed.
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Fifth Annual Bastiat Prize for Journalism Awarded Jointly to Tim Harford and Jamie Whyte

2006-11-01
Announcing the winners of IPN's 2006 Bastiat Prize for Journalism
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IPN response to the Royal Society and The Guardian's accusations on IPN's work on Climate Change

2006-09-22

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Research into private "slum schools" gets World Bank/FT Award

2006-09-18
Professor James Tooley has won First Prize in the first annual “Private Sector Development Research Paper Competition”, run by the International Finance Corporation (the private finance arm of the World Bank) and the Financial Times. Professor Tooley’s winning essay showed his recent research findings about the ubiquity of private schools for the poor in Asia and Africa, their superiority to government schools, and the ways investors can get involved.
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Time to shut down UNFPA, says think tank

2006-09-06
Today, as the UN Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) releases yet another tawdry plea for money dressed up as a “report”, London-based think-tank International Policy Network calls for this dubious UN agency to be shut down.
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Civil Society Groups Warn: Trafalgar Square Concert Gives Implicit Support to Authoritarian Regimes

2006-09-01

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From subsistence to sustainable farming in Africa

2006-08-11
To achieve a sustainable food supply, Africa needs an agricultural revolution, according to the authors of a new report, Growing Green: The Challenge of Sustainable Agricultural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa. The report will be released next week at the Sustainable Development Network conference, “Sustainable Agriculture in Africa: from ideas to action” (16 August 2006, in Johannesburg, South Africa).
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Finalists Announced for 2006 Bastiat Prize for Journalism

2006-08-03
Finalists for 2006 Bastiat Prize announced.
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100 NGOs from around the world unite in effort to support beleaguered civil society in Russia

2006-07-14
In the run-up to this weekend’s G8 meeting, 100 NGOs from around the world, including organisations in Russia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, China and Venezuela, have issued a statement indicating their solidarity with Russian civil society in opposing the Russian government’s increasingly authoritarian behaviour.
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DFID critics speak out: White Paper policies would perpetuate poverty, poor education and ill health

2006-07-13
Julian Morris, Professor James Tooley and Fredrik Erixon critique DFID's newly-released White Paper on international development.
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Cold dark future for Europe – Illarionov

2006-05-23
Cold dark future for Europe – Illarionov. A ‘chilly war’ has already begun, says Putin’s former advisor, in which the very basic pillars of Western society are at stake.
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EU’s “precaution” on DDT threatens lives of millions of Africans, says health charity

2006-04-25
London and Kampala, Uganda: Tuesday 25 April is Africa Malaria Day, a day to remember the million or more Africans who die every year from malaria. But it is also a day to consider practical, cheap and effective ways to reduce that death toll – and barriers to the implementation of such life-saving interventions.
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Governments Restrict Access to Healthcare and Prevent Medicine Development: major new report

2006-03-28
A new report from a global coalition of 16 civil society groups analyses the relationship between intellectual property, innovation and health and finds that access to medicines is often so low because of a range of harmful government interventions.
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Governments are cause of the world’s water crisis. Markets improve access, health and the environment, says new book

2006-03-15

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Foreign aid funds corruption new study reveals

2006-01-19
In a new study, Professor Wolfgang Kasper examines the correlation between foreign aid and corruption in poor countries.
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IPN submission to All Party Parliamentary Internet Group on Digital Rights Management
Julian Morris & Alec van Gelder
2006-01-13
In response to a call for evidence on the matter of digital rights management, the technology now commonly used to deliver creative content in a digital format, IPN has submitted the following to the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group.
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Demonstrators call for removal of trade barriers

2005-12-15
Advocates of free trade break down barriers to trade (literally!) at the World Trade Organization Ministerial meeting in Hong Kong. (see pictures)
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‘Trade Barriers Are Immoral; Free Trade Could End Poverty' Says author of new report

2005-12-14
A new report, “Just Trade: The Moral Imperative of Eliminating Barriers to Trade”, published today by International Policy Network (IPN) and written by IPN Executive Director Julian Morris, shows that the removal of barriers to trade could increase World GDP by over one trillion dollars, while lifting billions of people out of poverty.
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New Report: Better Health with Free Trade

2005-12-14
In a new study, Free Trade for better health, author Philip Stevens, International Policy Network’s Health Programme Director, examines the link between the trade, wealth and health and concludes that free trade dramatically improves the health of people in many of the world’s poorest countries.
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Freedom to Trade Coalition in Hong Kong for WTO Ministerial

2005-12-08
International Policy Network (IPN) and members of the Freedom to Trade Coaltion from Ghana, India and China will be participating in the WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong, 13-18 December 2005.
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IPN Hosts: John Kilama: AIDS, Trade and the Diseases of Poverty

2005-12-06
On Tuesday, December 6, 2005, International Policy Network (IPN) will host a lunch for John Kilama Ph.D., Director of the Global Bioscience Development Institute and advisor to IPN’s Campaign for Fighting Diseases. Kilama will address the reality of the diseases of poverty and how the current Doha Round of World Trade Organizations negotiations offers an opportunity for impoverished people to improve their health through economic development and wealth creation.
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IPN to Participate In Montreal COP-11 Climate Meeting: 'Global Climate Control Not Cost Effective– Will Undernmine Sustainable Development'

2005-12-01
Environment ministers from around the world will gather in Montreal, Quebec, next week at the COP-11 climate change meeting. International Policy Network will send four individuals to Montreal to participate in COP-11 from 5 to 9 December
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Memo To The World Health Organization: Make Prevention the Priority

2005-11-29
As World AIDS Day (1 December 2005) approaches, the Director of the Campaign for Fighting Diseases – a coalition of groups calling for practical approaches to the diseases of poverty – asks that governments pressure the UN and its agencies to changes their failing strategies tackling HIV/AIDS.
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Costa Rican consumer group lambastes proponents of ‘fair trade’ – says ‘free trade is fair trade’

2005-11-15
IPN will host a lunch for Rigoberto Stewart, the Vice-Chairman of Costa Rica’s Association of Free Consumers, on Thursday, 17 November at IPN’s offices. Dr. Stewart will discuss trade and what it means to people in poorer countries such as Costa Rica. He is severely critical of groups who call for preferential treatment of poor countries.
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IPN experts to attend/comment on World Summit on the Information Society

2005-11-07
International Policy Network research fellow Alec van Gelder will be attending the World Summit on Information Society that will be held in Tunisia from 16-18 November, 2005. van Gelder will be available for interview and comment before and during the event. IPN’s Executive Director, Professor Julian Morris, a leading authority on technology policy, will also be available for comment.
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DISCUSSION: SCIENCE, RISK, PUBLIC POLICY and LOW DOSE TOXINS

2005-11-03
On Thursday 10 November, 2005, International Policy Network will host a discussion featuring Edward J. Calabrese, Professor of Toxicology at the University of Massachusetts and Sir Colin Berry, Professor Emeritus of Pathology at Queen Mary School of Medicine and Dentistry at IEA.
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MARY O’GRADY WINS BASTIAT PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM

2005-10-26
Announcing the 2005 Frederic Bastiat Prize for Journalism winners
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Mary Anastasia OGrady Wins 2005 Bastiat Prize

2005-10-25
IPN announces winners for 2005 Bastiat Prize for Journalism
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New book shows precautionary principle will ‘wreak havoc’ in Europe

2005-10-05
A new book published by International Policy Network -- Arbitrary and Capricious -- charges that the EU’s reliance on the precautionary principle has not made Europeans better at managing risk through policy.
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EU Threats Against Uganda Based on Greed, Not Science

2005-09-28
DDT still can save lives today, but instead of helping African nations, European commercial interests are preventing its deployment. 'This is blatant protectionism and agro-chemical commercial interests disguised as a concern for European health’ concludes Richard Tren, director of Africa Fighting Malaria.
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Finalists Announced for 2005 Bastiat Journalism Prize

2005-09-16
International Policy Network announced the six finalists for the fourth international annual Bastiat Prize for Journalism on 15 September 2005. The Bastiat Prize celebrates writers whose work cleverly and wittily promotes on the institutions of free society – in honour of 19th Century French philosopher Frédéric Bastiat, who was a master of the genre.
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Solution to Africa’s poverty is empowerment through property ownership and free trade says new IPN study

2005-07-01
Press release about new IPN study by Moeletsi Mbeki
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World Health Organization’s AIDS strategy a deadly failure, says think tank

2005-06-29
The WHO’s failure to hit its “3 by 5” target - a plan to put 3 million AIDS sufferers on life-extending antiretroviral treatment by the end of 2005- is the result of it placing too much emphasis on treatment, and not enough on prevention. As a result of this misprioritisation, new cases of AIDS are piling up faster than they can be treated.
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Seminar on Intellectual Property Rights and Development

2005-06-22
Members of civil society gathered today at a seminar on the grounds of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) to discuss the role of intellectual property (IP) rights in ensuring sustainable social, economic, and cultural development.
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Seminar on Intellectual Property Rights and Development

2005-06-22
Members of civil society gathered today at a seminar on the grounds of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) to discuss the role of intellectual property (IP) rights in ensuring sustainable social, economic, and cultural development.
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New IPN study shows foreign aid does more harm than good

2005-06-10
A new study* from International Policy Network concludes that aid has failed to achieve its goals in the past 50 years. Worse, in many cases aid has been counterproductive – crowding out private sector investment, undermining democracy and perpetuating poverty.
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Academics, Civil Society Groups: WIPO must promote sound Intellectual Property laws in order to encourage social, economic and cultural development

2005-04-11
11 April 2005, Geneva -- Members of civil society groups, distinguished academics, and policy experts from around the world today issue an open letter to the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), calling for it to promote sound laws on intellectual property as a stimulus to social, economic and cultural development. Follow this link to read the submission to the WIPO and also to find out how to become a signatory:
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Think tank offers $10,000 Prize for Journalists

2005-03-29
Press Release announcing the 2005 Bastiat Prize for Journalism
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For better, cheaper medicines scrap state monopoly on regulation, says new report.
Dr Robert Sauer, IPN Research Fellow
2005-02-28
The current system of monopolistic national drug regulation could be made more efficient and more accountable by a fundamental structural overhaul. This would involve the creation of independent, competing drug certification boards, leading to cheaper drugs and more innovation.
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The EU and other rich countries must stop their hypocritical attempts to foist emissions controls on the poor, says Director of international think-tank

2004-12-17
Commentary on the closure of the COP-10 summit of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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‘Development, not global regulation, the solution to climate change’, says author of new report
IPN
2004-11-29
In advance of the COP-10 meeting on climate change in Argentina (6-17 December), the Sustainable Development Network has issued a blueprint on the relationship between climate change and sustainable development. The blueprint emphasises the role of economic development and technological progress in eliminating poverty and enabling people to cope with adverse effects of climate change and other problems.
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Report dispels myth of the 10/90 Gap in health research, calls for more constructive approach to improving access to medicines for the poor
Campaign for Fighting Diseases
2004-11-16
This week, Mexico City plays host to two major meetings on health research, both predicated on the so-called "10/90 Gap" - that only 10% of global health research is devoted to conditions accounting for 90% of the global disease burden. However, a new report from the Campaign for Fighting Diseases (CFD) shows that the 10/90 Gap is a myth, and that is is often overbearing government that stands in the way of gaining access to essential medicines .

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Remove unnecessary regulatory barriers on development of nutritionally enhanced food staples, says Campaign for Fighting Diseases

2004-11-04
The Campaign for Fighting Diseases calls for the removal of unnecessary barriers on the development and use of biotechnology to improve the nutritional benefits of food staples in poor countries. http://www.fightingdiseases.org/main/pr.php?pr_id=8
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Robert Guest Wins 2004 Bastiat Prize for Journalism

2004-10-13
IPN announces the winners of its 2004 Frederic Bastiat Prize for Journalism
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Russian Ministers’ decision to ratify Kyoto ‘motivated purely by politics’ according to Putin’s advisor

2004-09-30
Press release commenting on Russian Ministers' 30 September decision to ratify Kyoto Protocol
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Experts from across the world call on WIPO General Assembly to reject dangerous “Development Agenda” proposal

2004-09-29
Experts from think tanks and universities across the world have issued a Declaration directed at the General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organisation urging it to reject a new “Development Agenda” proposed by Argentina and Brazil, which they see as deeply flawed and likely counter-productive.
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2004 Bastiat Prize for Journalism - Finalists announced

2004-08-25
Seven finalists have been selected for the 2004 Frédéric Bastiat Prize for Journalism. The winners will be decided by a panel of judges each chosen for their lifelong commitment to promoting liberty through market institutions. The winners will be announced at a dinner in New York on the 12th October.
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Taxes and tariffs deny patients access to medicines, says new study.
Campaign for Fighting Diseases
2004-07-14
According to a new study issued by the Campaign for Fighting Diseases, tariffs and VAT in many poor countries are a significant factor in determining the end-user price of drugs, driving them up, sometimes by as much as 55%.
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Taxes and tariffs deny patients access to medicines, says new study.
Campaign for Fighting Diseases
2004-07-14
According to a new study issued by the Campaign for Fighting Diseases, tariffs and VAT in many poor countries are a significant factor in determining the end-user price of drugs, driving them up, sometimes by as much as 55%.
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Excessive “precaution” puts children’s lives at risk; WHO and governments must prioritise, say experts.
Campaign for Fighting Diseases
2004-06-24
Experts say that the WHO, meeting this week in Budapest, Hungary, should prioritise its efforts but not focus on the 'precautionary principle' as a means to attain better health
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Long-term solutions needed to solve famine, say experts.

2004-06-16
World Food Prize winner and others say that a combination of better institutions and modern technologies can end hunger and poverty
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OECD tax proposals unfair to small countries say international economists

2004-06-02
Later this week, OECD tax officials meet in Berlin to discuss the next steps in their campaign to press low-tax jurisdictions into ending what they see as ‘harmful’ tax practices. The campaign began in 1998 with a book published by the OECD – Harmful Tax Competition: An Emerging Global Issue – followed by the release in 2000 of a ‘black list’ of jurisdictions that allow financial privacy.
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Climate Change Body Faces Criticism for Bad Economics, Bad Science*

2004-04-23
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which advises governments on the causes and consequences of climate change, was accused by Lord Lawson this week of operating “an environmentalist closed shop that is unsullied by any acquaintance with economics, statistics or, indeed, economic history.”*
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Protect intellectual property, encourage creativity

2004-04-23
a press release on the occasion of World Intellectual Property Day, 25 April 2004
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Think tank offers $10,000 for best articles

2004-03-30
Press release announcing the Frederic Bastiat Prize for Journalism
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Kyoto stumbles at first European hurdle

2004-01-14
Press release: NGO says EU citizens will gain from Member States confronting the stark realities of their commitments to an 'unsustainable' Kyoto Protocol.
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International experts available for comment on World Economic Forum and World Social Forum

2004-01-14
Organizers of the World Social Forum believe their anti-capitalist, anti-corporate gathering represents the needs and solutions of the developing world. However, a number of experts from the developing world disagree.
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International NGO questions utility of COP “Talkfests”

2003-12-12
After nine COPs of the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), the world is not a better place. The emphasis has been placed on cost-ineffective plans such as the Kyoto Protocol, while cost-effective solutions to climate change have been largely ignored.
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Kyoto Protocol is irrelevant to the spread of disease says expert

2003-12-11
# Agents of the World Health Organization (WHO) claim urgent action is needed to curtail global warming in order to stop the spread of mosquito-borne diseases. Professor Paul Reiter, a leading specialist in these diseases rejects this suggestion. # Date: Wednesday December 10, 2003
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Kyoto Protocol inconsistent with Framework Convention; ministers should scrap Kyoto and adopt adaptation strategy

2003-12-10
The fate of the Kyoto Protocol hangs in the balance. A group of experts from International Policy Network have called on ministers meeting in Milan to scrap the Kyoto Protocol and consider alternative approaches, such as adaptation, to deal with climate change.
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UK public rejects Kyoto Protocol

2003-12-03
A Poll of the UK public shows 57% believe UK should not implement Kyoto if it will harm Britain’s economy and 70% believe that Britain should pursue alternative, less costly strategies.
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Experts available for commentary on Kyoto Protocol, COP-9 and global warming

2003-12-03
Experts available for commentary on Kyoto Protocol, COP-9 and global warming
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Adaptation - not the Kyoto Protocol - is the solution to global warming, say 13 experts in a new book

2003-12-01
Information about IPN's new book, Adapt or Die: The science, politics and economics of climate change, edited by Kendra Okonski.
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Wall Street Journal Writer Wins Journalism Prize

2003-10-23
Announcing the 2003 winners of the Frederic Bastiat Prize for Journalism
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NGOs demand real free trade

2003-10-17
Press release about the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) meeting in Miami, Florida
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Should Russia Ratify Kyoto?

2003-09-30
Experts say that the Kyoto Protocol would not prevent global warming but would undermine Russia’s economic growth.
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Finalists Named for $10,000 Journalism Prize

2003-09-26
Finalists for IPN's Frederic Bastiat Prize for Journalism announced
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Democracy and Free Trade prevail at WTO

2003-09-14
The decision by the G33 to walk out of the trade talks is perhaps the ultimate expression of this democratic organisation, where the rule of one member, one vote still holds true. It is now essential that negotiations proceed on a more realistic set of issues.
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Biosafety Protocol Will Harm Poor Farmers and Undermines WTO

2003-09-11
The Global Freedom to Trade Campaign, a coalition of pro-globalization NGOs at the Cancun WTO Ministerial, believes that the Biosafety Protocol, which comes into effect today, will harm poor farmers.
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Statement on TRIPs and Public Health

2003-09-11
The August 30 WTO deal on exports of generic medicines successfully resolved one of the sticking points in the Doha Development Round. Negotiators must now move on to more important matters.
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NGOs from around the world demand freedom to trade in agricultural products.

2003-09-08
A coalition of 25 NGOs from across the globe is calling for free trade in chocolate, and other agricultural goods, to help the poor. Chocolate is symbolic of the distorted global trade in agricultural goods.
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Int'l NGO Coalition Demands Global Freedom to Trade

2003-08-26
Press release announcing IPN's Global Freedom to Trade Campaign.
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Nigerian NGO calls for US President Bush to Bring Real Hope to Africa

2003-07-06
Sunday, 6 July, Lagos -- As US President George W. Bush tours Africa in the coming week, he will see a continent ravaged by disease and poverty. Underlying this tragic picture are corrupt and incompetent governments, which have suppressed basic liberties for decades. For this reason, Africans stand behind President Bush as he demands the removal of two of the continent's - and the world's - most vile oppressors, Liberia's Charles Taylor and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe. In response to Bush's demand, Thompson Ayodele of the Institute for Public Policy Analysis in Lagos, Nigeria, offers comments on policies that President Bush should pursue to improve the health and wellbeing of all Africans.
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African NGO Calls on G-8 Leaders to Rethink Strategy on Africa’s Poverty and Disease Predicament

2003-05-02
Organisation:IREN and IPN
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World Water Day (22 March 2003): Governments cause, and markets solve, problems with access to water and sustainable use

2003-03-17
The Sustainable Development Network believes that governments are the main problem with lack of access to clean water, because they actively subsidize water use or do not allow trading in water. For access to clean water today and in the future, markets - rather than governments- offer the best solution to local and global water problems.
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Pesticides: Killer or Lifesaver?

2003-02-26
A new report released by the Environmental Justice Foundation in the UK has called for the phase-out of pesticides in poor countries. [1] The Sustainable Development Network questions the conclusions of the report. The report is fundamentally flawed. The report makes many misleading and unscientific claims that are not supported by relevant scientific assessments of the role of pesticides and their impact on health. Whilst enthusiastically promoting the phase-out of pesticides, the report fails to take into consideration the impact this would have on poor people.
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NGOs Applaud CITES Decision to Allow Ivory Sales

2002-11-12
London, UK - The Sustainable Development Network (SDN), a coalition of 30 NGOs in India, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and other countries, applauds today's decision of parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Santiago, Chile, to allow the southern African countries of Botswana and Namibia to sell their ivory stocks.
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Media Advisory: Experts available for comment on WTO meeting in Sydney, Australia, and related trade issues

2002-11-11
Organisation:International Policy Network
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Resources for Sydney WTO meeting, November 2002

2002-11-10
The Facts! is published by www.worldgrowth.org. Its aim is to publicize the facts about the WTO and global economic development. Topics covered include justice & global equity, eradicating poverty, how the WTO helps Australians, who supports the WTO, and who opposes the WTO.
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Prize for Journalism Goes to Indian, US Journalists

2002-09-10
International Policy Network (IPN) is delighted to announce the first winners of its Frédéric Bastiat Prize for Journalism. Senior columnist on political economy for the Financial Times, Amity Shlaes; and editorial writer and columnist for the Economic Times of India, Sauvik Chakraverti will share the US$12,000 first prize.
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Intellectual Property Protection and Developing Countries: Experts Available for Immediate Comment

2002-09-10
Experts.
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Intellectual property protection promotes development and technology transfer

2002-09-09
At this month’s World Summit on Sustainable Development, delegates agreed that technology transfer and foreign direct investment (FDI) were important drivers of economic development and poverty alleviation.
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This month's world summit on sustainable development may perpetuate poverty and harm the environment

2002-08-12
Later this month, thousands of government officials and representatives of NGOs will gather in Johannesburg, South Africa, to participate in the World Summit on Sustainable Development.
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Misguided Precaution – Chemicals Control and the Precautionary Principle in Sweden

2001-11-14
On November 14th, Dr Nilsson will speak at a lunch, co-hosted by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, aimed at Capitol Hill policymakers. On November 16th, Dr Nilsson will give a public lecture at the Cato Institute. For more information, please visit www.policynetwork.net.
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Global Warming - A European Myth

2001-07-18
On Monday 18th June, Professor Philip Stott of London University, SOAS, will speak at the IEA about 'The European Myth of Global Warming'.
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New Study Shows Tragic Consequences of Environmentalists' Campaign to Ban DDT

2001-07-18
Press release announcing publication of "Malaria and the DDT Story"
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Compulsory licensing no solution to health problems in poor countries, say experts from India, Argentina, Canada and South Africa.

2001-07-10
In a collection of papers published today, a group of experts from around the world contradict the claim that compulsory licensing of 'essential' medicines will benefit the world's poor. They point out that patents and other forms of intellectual property are an essential component in economic development. Interfering with intellectual property by compulsory licensing or price controls will undermine investments and cause more harm than good. They call instead for stronger protection of intellectual property globally.
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Grupos de la sociedad civil piden por libre comercio, condenan las protestas

2001-04-07
En un anuncio suscrito esta semana (in English) en Punta del Este, Uruguay, representantes de 20 grupos de la sociedad civil procedentes de distintos países de las Américas hicieron un llamado al compromiso para un comercio más libre, eliminación de subsidios, y garantías para los derechos de propiedad.
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EU’s “precaution” on DDT threatens lives of millions of Africans, says health charity

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London and Kampala, Uganda: Tuesday 25 April is Africa Malaria Day, a day to remember the million or more Africans who die every year from malaria. But it is also a day to consider practical, cheap and effective ways to reduce that death toll – and barriers to the implementation of such life-saving interventions.
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Stop the counterfeit drugs problem at its source, urges think tank

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One in Three malaria drugs failing in Africa - new study

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A new survey of antimalarial drugs in Africa has discovered a third to be substandard, putting millions of patients at risk.
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