If you care about property rights or access to new medicine for the world’s poor keep your eye on the current fight over Thailand’s attempt to confiscate drug patents. The brawl is getting messier by the day, says the Wall Street Journal.
Consider the recent developments:
Thailand’s military government
Criticisms of Al Gore and his documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth,” have come not only from conservative groups and prominent sceptics of catastrophic warming, but also from rank-and-file scientists who occupy a middle ground in the climate debate, says the New York Times.
The concern is not over the existence of climate
Does globalisation, as its advocates maintain, help spread the wealth? Or, as its critics charge, does globalisation hurt the poor? In a new book titled, “Globalization and Poverty,” edited by Ann Harrison, a researcher with the National Bureau of Economic Research, 15 economists consider these and other questions. She concludes
The Constitutional Court case of Mohunram and Another vs The National Director of Public Prosecution (NDPP) and Another is a breath of fresh air. It enjoins our courts to be vigilant in the protection of human rights in relation to their properties.
Organised crime is rife in South Africa and
The federal government has provided provinces with an extra $36 billion in transfers for health care since 1997, yet Canada’s health care system is in worse shape now than it was 10 years ago, according to a new report by the Fraser Institute.
Consider:
Between 1980 and 1997, federal transfers for
Despite campaign promises not to raise taxes, the new Democratic majority’s budget fails to keep existing tax policies in place, which amounts to a $900 billion tax hike over five years, the largest tax increase ever, say Senators Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).
For instance:
Under a Democratic budget
