Private education initiatives are becoming increasingly important in a growing list of countries according to a recently released Organisation for Co-operation and Development (OECD) report. According to the report:
Private spending on tertiary institutions now exceeds 30% in a number of countries, including South Korea, Japan, the U.S., Australia, Canada
Australia has a “universal” health care programme that covers care in public hospitals and ambulatory care. Since 1953, private coverage has been allowed to cover care in private hospitals, choice of specialist, and “ancillary” services such as dental and physical therapy.
As recently as 1984 about 50 percent of the population
Death rates due to the top 10 cancers decreased between 1992 and 1998, with the exception of those cancers attributable to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and of female lung cancer. That is one of the conclusions of the annual Report to the Nation on the Status of
Cancer from the American Cancer
Military historian John Keegan debunks the notion that man is naturally inclined toward war, which he defines as “collective killing for some collective purpose.” Indeed, he is hopeful the world is moving toward peace.
Science, Keegan argues, hasn’t found anything to explain why people make war.
Certainly, men are aggressive and
Less than a year after the U.S. Congress increased the number of H-1B visas available to would-be immigrants with high-tech skills, thousands of the visas are going begging and some of those who went to the U.S. in search of Silicon Valley jobs are returning home.
High-tech companies that campaigned strongly
One tax system being reviewed for Canadian tax reform is the flat tax. Under a flat tax all income is taxed only once and at the same rate.
In addition to its economic benefits, proponents say a flat tax would achieve greater fairness: households with similar incomes would face similar tax
David Henderson, former Head of the Economics and Statistics Department of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (1984-1992), presented the Thirtieth Wincott Lecture for London’s Institute of Economic Affairs. Entitled “Anti-Liberalism 2000”. Henderson’s lecture argued that:
Economic liberalism declined for a century prior to the 1980s.
Many of the
Environmentalist, and former Greenpeace member, Dr. Bjorn Lomborg has authored a new book arguing that the Kyoto Treaty on greenhouse gas emissions is a monumental waste of money. Lomborg, associate professor of statistics at Denmark’s University of Aarhus, is releasing the results of his four-year study of environmental issues through
Free-trade advocates fear President Bush has let the protectionism genie out of the bottle by his recent decision to support trade barriers against imported steel. His move was squarely at odds with his oft-stated support of free trade. Critics charge that his caving in to quotas was prompted by political
The Olympics are a test of athletic prowess between competing citizens of various nations. Many try to predict how many medals a nation will win by a number of variables. A new study argues that it is possible to predict how many medals a nation will get by simply measuring
