The NGP envisages a greater role for government, whereas, paradoxically, the poor risk and often lose their lives to get away from countries where governments purport to do more for them to ones where governments do less. People flee in only one direction, from less to more free economies, from
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Faced with mounting debt and looming costs from the new federal health care law, many US local governments are leaving the hospital business, shedding public facilities that can be the caregiver of last resort, says the Wall Street Journal.
More than a fifth of the nation’s 5,000 hospitals are owned by
Using a new method of calculating mortality that they say is more complete and accurate than previous methods, a team of researchers from the University of Washington says the number of deaths of children under age five has plummeted from 11.9 million in 1990 to 7.7 million in 2010.
The findings
Only South Africas young professionals can take this country in a new direction. Young people whose minds are not polluted with all this anti-colonial and anti-apartheid rhetoric and garbage. Those who are capable of clear thinking, can see things with acute clarity, and can understand that the leadership must be
When a radical idea is thrown into the political arena, a short-term consequence is massive uncertainty. Loose talk by a junior politician can cause much uncertainty if the government fails to quash the notion he is putting forward and reassure the nation. When such radical ideas go forward for serious
After being re-energised by President Obama’s support for an activist “green” policy agenda, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed or already approved new regulations that promise to hobble economic growth and add to the nation’s unemployment problem, says William F. Shughart II, a senior fellow at the Independent Institute.
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Some voices in the government alliance have called for the total abolition of labour brokers. Or lately, for a regime where the client of a labour broker is deemed to be the employer, burdened with all the labour-law obligations that that entails. These calls on the part of the trade
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan recently said that, South Africa needed to set itself a target of growing by around 7 per cent over a 20-year period in order to deal with unemployment and poverty in the country. The fact that Mr Gordhan recognises economic growth as an important factor in
It is a different time and we have a different government but history in this country is being repeated. Labour law in South Africa today is wreaking the same havoc on the millions of unemployed as the 1913 Land Act did on black sharecroppers. Like those victims of the past,
