Recent publications in IPA Backgrounder

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Unbinding Book Barriers: Why Australia should scrap parallel import restrictions on books

IPA BACKGROUNDER | Tim Wilson

The Productivity Commission is considering whether to liberalise Australia's parallel import restrictions for books. Unbinding Book Barriers finds that prices of books could fall by more than 30 per cent, without harming authors, Australian...

Undermining Mitigation Technology: Compulsory licensing, patents and tariffs

IPA BACKGROUNDER | Tim Wilson

The incentives to develop the technologies to reduce global CO2 emissions are being undermined. Internationally, a campaign is being run to undermine the intellectual property that incentivises research and development on CO2 mitigation...

HIV/AIDS medicines for all?

IPA BACKGROUNDER | Tim Wilson

There are few more important issues facing developing nations than the HIV/AIDS crisis. HIV/AIDS destroys lives, consumes scarce resources, and provides yet another unneeded brake on the path to growth for many developing nations. The developed...

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