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May 12, 2008

Feature Article: Neo-Colonialist NGOs

By Temba A. Nolutshungu
7 May 2008
Soon after the real colonialists left Africa, a new breed of Western colonialists emerged: the statist Non-Governmental Organisations that want to save us from everything from genetically-modified food to globalisation - and growth.  They have enormous influence even though their ideologies have failed in their own countries: before taking the neo-colonialists' medicine, we must carefully read the label or suffer nasty side effects.
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Health

Attack on patents hurts the poor

By Franklin Cudjoe, Alec van Gelder
9 Apr 2008
The “patients not patents” campaign has a simplistic appeal but will only make things worse for the poor, as well as distracting attention from the real causes of ill health: poverty and corruption.  Africans must not let their health and growth be damaged by populist propaganda.

A dose of reality on climate change

By Philip Stevens
16 Feb 2008
Britain’s Department of Health says we face killer heatwaves and the Royal College of Physicians president says "the effects of global warming on health could eclipse those of smoking, alcohol and obesity." But more people in the UK routinely die of cold than of heat. And the cure for so-called tropical diseases is not cool temperatures but prosperity.

End Africa's failed healthcare policies

By Thompson Ayodele
9 Feb 2008
Despite massive increases of donor funding for health in Africa, things on the ground are not improving. It's time to examine new methods of delivering healthcare in Africa, in particular harnessing the power of the private sector.

Environment

U.N. study says starve the poor

By Douglas Southgate
19 Apr 2008
At a time when food prices are rising sharply, the UN's anti-market and anti-technology approach to agriculture will only make food scarcer and drive prices even higher.

What's killing the poor is poverty

By Nonoy Oplas
4 Apr 2008
There is a growing notion that rich countries should slash imports from poor countries whose antiquated factories are heavy carbon emitters: this eco-protectionism is in fact good old-fashioned protectionism and would hit the poor hardest.

Protectionism harms consumers and the environment

By Caroline Boin, Kendra Okonski
3 Feb 2008
Proposals to restrict imports from countries which do not reduce greenhouse gas emissions are simply protectionism. They would decrease world trade, disproportionately harming poorer countries, and favour the status quo by rewarding inefficient producers and thus delaying the adoption of cleaner, resource-saving technologies.

Technology

The real threat to European R&D

By Alec van Gelder
5 Aug 2007
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.

Africa needs its own Green Revolution

By Douglas Southgate
25 Jul 2007
Agricultural technologies that could save millions of lives are being held back from Africans because of the opposition of environmental NGOs and other interest groups.

Net loss

By Alec van Gelder
5 Apr 2007
In spite of its harmless name, "net neutrality" would damage important innovation and hamper investment into broadband across Europe and possibly elsewhere.

Trade & Development

Mugabe overstretches voters’ patience

By Rejoice Ngwenya
16 Apr 2008
On the 28th anniversary of throwing off colonial rule, we still cannot throw off one-man rule as President Robert Mugabe clings to power after two million Zimbabweans told him it was time to go.

Africa: too much leadership

By James Shikwati
31 Mar 2008
Kibaki and Odinga are being hailed as great leaders for the political settlement in Kenya and there is even talk of something similar in Zimbabwe - but leadership is part of the problem: Africa suffers from strong leaders and weak institutions.

Rising food prices, protectionism and the poor

By Caroline Boin, Alec van Gelder
20 Mar 2008
Food prices have drastically risen over the past year, causing street protests from Mexico to India to Senegal; it is the poorest countries that will benefit most from dropping their own tariffs in response to this.