What if Californians considered the relative risks and rewards of nuclear power vs. global warming, increased use of imported fossil fuels and massive electricity rate hikes, and decided in favour of nuclear power? The California Energy Independence and Zero Carbon Dioxide Emission Electrical Generation Act slated for the June 2008
America has been more hostile to free-market infrastructure than the rest of the world. In Europe, Australia, Canada and emerging markets such as Brazil, the private sector has jumped in to build new roads, bridges, tunnels and airports, says Investor’s Business Daily.
Consider:
In the United States, the federal government
When Bulgaria’s Institute for Market Economics (IME) began touting a flat tax system for the country in the 1990s, it was seen as a crazy free market idea that would never become reality. But a lot has changed in the past decade, says Deutsche Welle, an international German broadcaster.
Consider:
Validation of development aid for low income countries seemed to arrive with World Bank researchers Craig Burnside and David Dollar, who purportedly showed in the late 1990s that aid helped boost long run economic growth, says Arvind Subramanian, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and at the Peterson
In Lima, Peru, those hit hardest by the crises in education and water poor Peruvians are not reacting with complacency, they are demanding private solutions, says Ian Vasquez, director of the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity at the Cato Institute.
In the case of water, the poor know
