Alternate Solutions Institute

This Press Briefing has been arranged in connection with the launching of Global Freedom to Trade Campaign. As we know that WTO’s 5th ministerial conference

Ausgust 25, 2009 In recent years free trade agreements have become fashionable. Thus, when two or more countries reach an agreement to allow free trade

By Farooq Tirmizi January 18, 2011 In a nutshell, protectionism is when a government restricts the flow of goods in or out of the country

May 3, 2011 By Tibor R. Machan How ill conceived it is that government is thought to be authorized to regiment people’s economic activities and

By Nadir Hassan March 28, 2014  The MFN then, even if its name has been watered down to Non-Discriminatory Market Access to remove the misimpression

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

Rising food prices have caused street protests from Mexico to India to Senegal. But this could be a blessing in disguise if it makes governments

The article, Restore the food market, argues that the food crisis, i.e. food shortages and food price hikes, is a phenomena of nationally closed and

Scary headlines recently announced that a study claims that a pesticide causes prostate cancer and birth defects. Predictably, the study on banana plantations in the

Chronic hunger affects some 850 million people in the world, while hunger and poverty combined claim around 25,000 lives every day. To remind us of