Good news abounds for some people in some malarial countries. Delegates to the recent WHO Southern African Malaria Control (SAMC) meeting in Lusaka Zambia heard how indoor residual spraying with DDT and other insecticides is dramatically reducing malaria cases in Zambia, South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique and several other southern African
Crime will continue to increase in SA until crime does not pay. Government has to take steps to make crime less profitable than other ways of earning a living. Economic incentives and disincentives must be brought to bear on the problem.
The government spends a steady proportion of total taxes on
Public choice is a scientific analysis of government behaviour and, in particular, the behaviour of individuals with respect to government, wrote economist Gordon Tullock, one of the founders, with James Buchanan, of public choice. It is an approach to economics and politics built on Adam Smiths observation that individuals are
Churchill said that people occasionally stumble upon truth, but pick themselves up and press on. Josh Billings said the trouble with people isnt their ignorance, its the number of things they know that just aint so. Ayn Rand stumbled upon something everyone knows that just aint so, but picked herself
Modern foreign exchange (forex) controls were introduced in Nazi Germany just before the Second World War in a vain attempt to stop fleeing Jews from taking their assets with them. Hitlers gold and foreign currency reserves then dwindled faster than ever and his decision to go to war was in
