Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s response to his country’s food shortages: find a scapegoat, in this case supermarket owners. On Jan. 17, the mercurial leader expropriated six Exito stores, controlled by France’s Groupe Casino. A month later he seized Cada, another Casino chain, with 35 supermarkets and eight distribution centres.
Chávez’s efforts
A new report from the Rarer Cancers Forum suggests that 16,000 people in the United Kingdom have been denied cancer drugs by Great Britain’s government-controlled National Health Service (NHS).
Key findings:
Although progress has been made in gaining access to treatment, with 8,750 more patients being given vital treatment, 16,000 have
We've heard all the usual complaints about Obamacare, says John Stossel, a commentator with FOX News: it would cost too much, it would forbid insurance companies from penalizing behaviour that leads to bad health, it would force everyone to buy insurance (the big cause of sky-high costs). But now John
The South African government’s health service has gone running back to the private sector to help fix “dilapidated public hospitals”, according to a report by Tamar Kahn which appeared in the Business Day. The government’s 2002 hospital revitalisation scheme, it says, “has seen projects delayed and budgets blown” – resulting
The China problem is a torment for many clothing and textile manufacturers and producers around the world. Their main beef is that the Chinese tend to produce clothing and textiles so much more cheaply compared to what they themselves are capable of doing. As a result, domestic manufacturers across the
To uncover what is wrong with American public schools one has to consider the following: The impact of restrictive collective bargaining agreements that prevent rewarding good teachers and removing ineffective ones, intrusive court interventions and useless teacher certification laws. Charter schools were invented to address these problems, says Paul E.
