While French youths are rioting over a proposal that would actually help them get work, U.S. college graduates are about to enter a hot job market. Could it be, asks Investor’s Business Daily (IBD), that the French system is a failure?
An anti-market, welfare state has not served France or
Since 2001, private health insurance premiums in the U.S. have risen 73 per cent, causing some businesses to drop health care coverage and others to simply pass the costs on to workers by raising co-payments and premiums. But what is driving this run-up in health insurance costs, asks Allan Hubbard,
Beyond China’s prosperity lies rampant corruption, vast waste and an elite with little interest in making things better, says Minxin Pei of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Though many experts predict the Chinese economy will be second only to the United States by 2020, if current trends continue, China’s
Nearly 50 per cent of people in parts of Africa and Asia have no access to medicines due to harmful government policies including weak health infrastructure, taxes and tariffs, price controls and bureaucratic drug registration, says the Civil Society Report on Intellectual Property Innovation and Health, a study sponsored by
A study released by the Fraser Institute recommends a five-year, $60 billion plan for federal and provincial business tax relief to spur investment and improve Canada’s productivity.
According to the researchers, Canada has one of the highest tax rates on incremental investment in the world, which discourages the investment critical
Private health insurance may be a good solution for the poor inhabitants of developing countries, say researchers from the University of Pennsylvania.
Government-run health programmes, adopted by most developing nations, have inefficiencies that force many people to pay over half of their medical expenses out of pocket. For example:
In virtually all
Some 85 per cent of Americans say global warming is probably happening, and 62 per cent say it threatens them personally. The National Academy of Sciences says the rise in the Earth’s surface temperature has been about 1 degree Fahrenheit in the last century. Did 85 per cent of Americans
