The rebuke of the Europe-wide ban on bio-engineered crops and food by the World Trade Organisation has sent anti-biotech advocacy groups scrambling, says Jon Entine, adjunct fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The United States, Argentina and Canada had argued that the moratorium had more to do with protectionism than
Bill and Melinda Gates have been pouring billions into programmes designed to help the health of residents in poor nations. To determine the return various projects generate, Gates helped finance a World Bank investigation into the efficiency of measures to improve the health of the world’s poor.
The World Bank studied
As the rate of obesity in France rises, the country might lose its skinny crown, says the Economist.
According to researchers:
The rate of obesity in France has started to swell, rising from 8 per cent of the adult population in 1977 to 11 per cent by 2003.
Over 40 per cent of
By any measure, Canada is a success story. Apart from being physically beautiful, politically stable and socially tolerant, it is rich. Canadians enjoy the sixth-highest gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Unfortunately, Canadians have one fatal flaw, says the Economist: They
South Africa, like most other African countries, faces what may seem to be insurmountable obstacles to achieving improved healthcare and reduced death and disease. Millions of Africans die from entirely preventable and curable diseases, like malaria, TB and diarrhea. While many governments have made noble efforts to
The U.S. Treasury Department wants to create a small new shop to study the impact of tax changes on economic growth and thus also on federal revenues. This is good news, says the Wall Street Journal.
President Bush’s Fiscal 2007 budget last week requested about half a million dollars to establish
