Inflation jitters spread through emerging markets earlier this week, prompting China’s central bank to raise interest rates for the third time in four months amid worries that a drought threatening the country’s wheat crop will put further pressure on global food prices. China’s move is just the latest by emerging-market
The Health Sector Charter originally proposed by the Department of Health (DOH) failed to grasp the opportunity to empower the large number of employees in the public sector. If press reports are correct, this situation continues.
In giving evidence to the Health Charter committee, the FMF pointed out that the government
The African continent has received over $400 billion worth of aid since the 1970s. Despite these significant transfers it remains the poorest continent. Indeed, the African continent is the only one that has grown poorer in the last 25 years. As a result, average life expectancy has declined to a
(A worthwhile test of democracy)
After a lapse of 60 years, Japan is planning to bring back a jury system. But a huge effort will be required to convince ordinary Japanese about its advantages, says Robert Precht, co-director of the Juries and Democracy Programme at the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Centre
Just a decade ago, Europe conducted more than two-thirds of all drug research, whereas now the United States accounts for two-thirds, says Grace-Marie Turner of Galen Institute.
Europe’s deliberate government policy, in the form of price controls imposed by national health care systems, slowly choked a once-thriving economic sector. After
Once touted by the Obama administration as the wave of the future, green stimulus programs are rapidly falling out of favour with the administration as jobs fail to materialise, says the Heartland Institute.
About $92 billion in taxpayer funds more than 11 per cent of President Obama’s original
Critics of consumer-directed health care often argue that patients are not knowledgeable enough and the market is not transparent enough for consumerism to work in health care. But a study by The Commonwealth Fund says there is an international trend toward self-directed care (SDC) and it is focused on a
Current experience and history both speak loudly that the only real engine of growth out of poverty is private business, and there is no evidence that aid fuels such growth, says William Easterly, professor of economics at New York University and co-director of its Development Research Institute.
Of the eight Millennium
Canadians celebrated Tax Freedom Day on June 5 this year, three days later than 2009, according to the Fraser Institutes annual Tax Freedom Day calculations.
Tax Freedom Day is a clear and easy-to-understand representation of the amount of tax the average Canadian family must pay to all levels of government.
