recent documentsMedia & Policy Papers
- Making medicines affordable: the role of innovation, competition and taxation (pdf/47kb)
by Noy Oplas - The Retreat of High Income Tax Rate Philosophy in the World (pdf/17kb)
by Noy Oplas
Policy and Discussion Papers
Small Government
- Individual liberty and property rights in the Pacific Rim
- Liberty and Choice vs. Dictation and Extortion
- Minimal government intervention
- Some Myths about Market and State Responsibility
- Rent-seeking and Government
- Why more government can mean less health care
- Seven Principles of sound public policy
Small Taxes
- The Retreat of High Income Tax Rate Philosophy in the World
- Rationale of income tax abolition
- Flat is beautiful: Proving the feasibility of a 10% flat personal income tax in the Philippines
Free Market
- Foreign aid for health
- What's killing the poor is poverty
- Free trade = free choice
- Obstacles to free trade
- Just trade: the moral imperative of eliminating barriers to trade
- Welfare function of profit and CSR
- What determines wage?
- Central banks can be anti-globalists too
- Globalization = mobility = freedom
- No such thing as nurses brain drain
- Oil taxes and horses
Individual Responsibility
- State welfarism vs. individual responsibility
- Why education should be parental responsibility, not government responsibility
Intellectual Property Rights
- RA 9502: Affordable medicines law
- Intellectual property rights (BWorld article, Oct. 24, 2007)
- Don't look to India for health care answers (by Bibek Debroy)
- Promoting Innovation and Public Health Through Less Government Intervention
- Local Pharmaceutical Production in Developing Countries
- Cheap at all cost medicines kill innovation
- Scrapping patents is dangerous medicine
- Patents - protecting your money and your life
- The Medical Observer
- Civil Society commentary on the WHO Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property
