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Food crisis12 May 2008
Prices of staple foods have risen by more than 50 per cent over the last six months, causing riots from Cameroon to Burkina Faso, Haiti and Egypt and threatening to push 100 million people into poverty. Developing countries complain about the farm subsidies (some 29% of farmers’ income in the OECD) in developed countries and rich countries complain about the trade barriers put up by developing countries against manufactured goods: but the biggest barriers of all are between developing countries, particularly in Africa, protecting inefficiency, high prices and corruption. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently condemned protectionism: “International grain markets must remain open and functioning normally… beggar thy neighbour food wars cannot, in the long-run, help anyone.” The share of developing countries in world trade grew from 29 per cent to 37 per cent between 1996 and 2006, while trade itself was doubling – a massive increase that could be improved by more trade, held up by the stalled Doha Round at the World Trade Organisation. While humanitarian aid saves lives in disasters, development aid simply strengthens trade-distorting policies and corruption in both developing and developed nations. READ the full article at http://www.freemarketfoundation.com/.
US FDA BRINGS GOOD HIV/AIDS DRUGS TO THE POOREST
7 Mar 2008
CLICK HERE FOR FULL ANALYSIS at the Campaign for Fighting Diseases In the global fight against HIV/AIDS, there is perhaps no greater single contribution to public health than the US FDA Fast Track Process: the World Health Organisation had been giving “prequalification” approval to untested medicines on the grounds that it was better to give poor drugs to the poor than nothing. In fact, those drugs could be harmful to patients as well as helping the disease mutate. As the prequalification scandal broke in 2004, the FDA offered free testing to any foreign drug being sold as a generic: this meant better drugs in general for the poor but also meant that the huge US PEPFAR programme could buy these approved drugs in the sure knowledge they were getting the right products. Now, 70% of PEPFAR beneficiaries, or about half of all HIV/AIDS patients, get these FDA-approved generics. What the FDA and the reformed WHO prequalification system have achieved is only an indication of what more can be done for the benefit of poor patients. Jeremiah Norris Center for Science in Public Policy, Hudson Institute, Washington DC.
Will the internet kill off Hollywood?
29 Feb 2008
A long article in The Economist (21 Feb. 2008) analyses the premature reports of the death of Hollywood, saying it can overcome piracy and adapt to new media. Barun Mitra comments:- The Gutenberg press did not make handwriting obsolete but actually contributed to expanding literacy...
Food protectionism, prices and Doha
19 Feb 2008
This Wall Street Journal news analysis argues that current high global food prices could prompt countries to cut import tariffs on agricultural products, thus making an agreement in the Doha trade talks easier – although there is no prospect of a cut in EU or US farm subsidies. The EU has temporarily removed all tariffs on cereal imports, while countries as diverse as Russia, India, and South Korea have cut tariffs on various agricultural imports...
Wealth equals health
18 Feb 2008
A new report from British pressure group Save the Children claims that economic growth does not necessarily translate into a healthier population. The report cites examples such as India, which still suffers high rates of child mortality despite having undergone a prolonged period of economic growth. This report saysnothing new. Reading between the lines, it is a fairly standard call for governments to redistribute wealth and intervene more heavily in the economy, in order to iron out the inequalities which they perceive to perpetuate ill health. However, economic growth certainly does improve health of the individuals who are able to benefit from it, not least because it enables people to afford better sanitation and living conditions, which are the key to reducing most of the disease burden in less developed countries. The point is that not everyone is able to share in economic growth, largely because of counterproductive governance. For example, if the poor do not have property rights, it makes it impossible for them to borrow capital to invest in their own businesses and education and climb up the economic ladder. Meanwhile, the poorest countries erect massive, costly regulatory obstacles to entrepreneurship, meaning that only the politically well-connected and rich can start businesses and create wealth. And so on. Save the Children are right to point out that the poor are still suffering unacceptably poor health as a result of poverty. Their diagnosis is way off the mark, because the redistributory measures they advocate would stifle economic growth and cut off the one mechanism that is vital for improving health. It would be more constructive for Save the Children to talk about empowering the poor instead of clobbering the rich.
Africa
Health tourism can be healthy
By Lucy Davis, Fredrik Erixon27 Jun 2008
Healthcare costs are rising everywhere: in the developed world things can only get worse with ageing populations, while in poor countries there is minimal progress plus a debilitating brain drain. But health tourism could change all that: health tourism is simply free trade in services – a World Trade Organisation clause that has been ratified by very few countries, although Thailand, Singapore, South Africa and India are already demonstrating how to make big bucks in this specialist trade.
Twelve Steps to Poverty
By Kofi Bentil5 Jun 2008
World Environment Day on 5 June offers the poor a tempting formula: developing countries must slow economic growth to avoid becoming eco-vampires like the industrialized economies. Its "Twelve Steps to Help You Kick the CO2 Habit" mean we Africans should be content to live quaintly in our mud huts lit by solar and wind power.
View the Full Article »SA should avoid Britain's healthcare mistakes
By Eustace Davie, Philip Stevens2 Jun 2008
The South African government is hoping to create a 'universal' health system by imposing increasingly onerous regulations on the private sector. Evidence from Britain's health system shows this is doomed to failure.
View the Full Article »UN's Russian roulette for poor patients
By Jeremiah Norris26 May 2008
Sub-standard AIDS and malaria drugs can cause parasite resistance and clinical failure. Yet the Global Fund has been using taxpayer's money to procure such drugs for millions of low-income patients.
View the Full Article »Get Real About AIDS
By James Chin18 May 2008
UNAIDS has systematically perpetuated myths about the nature and scope of the AIDS pandemic in order to keep the disease high on the political agenda. As a result, many billions of dollars have been wasted on prevention programmes that have no basis in science.
View the Full Article »Malaria keeps killing millions
By Jasson Urbach15 May 2008
Fake and substandard drugs produced by unscrupulous manufacturers are a real worry for African patients.
View the Full Article »One in Three malaria drugs failing in Africa
By Roger Bate12 May 2008
New field research shows that a third of legal, not counterfeit, malaria drugs collected in six African cities fail at least one quality test - and aid agencies continue to fund these and other untested substandard drugs. The Global Fund, bureaucrats and activists have become part of the problem : patients, health workers and governments in poor countries need to start protesting loudly against this hypocrisy.
View the Full Article »Neo-Colonialist NGOs
By Temba A. Nolutshungu7 May 2008
1960s economics and modern medicines: a fatal combination
By Philip Stevens25 Apr 2008
The WHO’s plans to push subsidised local drug production in Africa threaten to worsen the problem of substandard generics, placing the most vulnerable at risk.
View the Full Article »Bottoms up to Earth Day
By Julian Morris22 Apr 2008
The top-down solutions to environmental problems favoured by the Green movement have failed to protect the environment, and have impoverished millions in the process.
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