According to Deloitte consulting services, 875,000 Americans were medical tourists in 2010, travelling outside U.S. borders to receive health care: dental work, elective hip replacements, even bypass surgery, says Manoj Jain, an adjunct assistant professor at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta.
According to Devi Shetty,
A new study from the Adam Smith Institute in the United Kingdom provides overwhelming evidence that class-warfare tax policy is grossly misguided and self-destructive, says Daniel J. Mitchell, a senior fellow with the Cato Institute.
The authors examine the likely impact of the 10-percentage point increase in the top income
The Freedom Charter was written when nationalisation was such a popular concept that it was not espoused only by the “left”. It was commonplace in nominally “capitalist” countries, practised by the apartheid regime and its predecessors, and endorsed by most recognised intellectuals. It was widely regarded as the only way
South African clothing manufactures continue to lobby for increased protections (usually in the form of tariff protection) in order to shield domestic manufactures from foreign competition (usually China). The SA clothing manufactures argue that the playing field is not level because the Chinese government uses Chinese taxpayer’s money to subsidise
Ghana nationalised its mining sector in the early 1960s with the objective of “maximising government revenue … and employment generation”. Instead, the industry experienced a dramatic decline following nationalisation, with gold production falling from 915,317 ounces in 1960 to 282,299 ounces by 1984. The reasons given by the World Bank
