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Good News from Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa still is the poorest and most wartorn region on the planet. But in recent years many of its countries’ economies have finally been catching up a little with the rest of the wo… more →
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Good News from Sub-Saharan Africa
michaeloholmes wrote 11 hours ago: Sub-Saharan Africa still is the poorest and most wartorn region on the planet. But in recent years m … more →
"FDR's Policies Prolonged Depression By 7 Years..."
michaeloholmes wrote 1 day ago: UCLA economists calculate - Meg Sullivan for the UCLA Newsroom “‘Why the Great Depressio … more →
Eleni Gabre-Madhin's Vision For Ethiopia
michaeloholmes wrote 3 days ago: Watch Economist Eleni Gabre-Madhin talk about the future of her home country Ethiopia and rural Afri … more →
Freedom House Special Report on Change in Cuba
michaeloholmes wrote 3 days ago: Freedom House has talked to ordinary Cubans from all around the island about how they have been affe … more →
Transparency International on Corruption: "An Ongoing Humanitarian Disaster"
michaeloholmes wrote 6 days ago: Transparency International has launched its 2008 Corruption Perceptions Index, which again “hi … more →
Why Almost Everything Is Getting Better
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michaeloholmes wrote 6 days ago: For once Bono surprised me. For once he has shown some real courage. In the midth of crisis he has r … more →
Did the New Deal End the Great Depression?
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michaeloholmes wrote 1 week ago: Every economic crisis since the Great Depression has been compared to the Great Depression, just lik … more →
Is Aid to Africa Doing More Harm Than Good?
michaeloholmes wrote 1 week ago: If you still believe that aid to Africa is nothing worth debating and only evil people will ever que … more →
How Are Americans Doing Today?
michaeloholmes wrote 1 week ago: Well, the answer to this question very much depends on your perspective of course. And if you are dr … more →
Recession, Depression - How Bad Will It Get?
michaeloholmes wrote 1 week ago: Listen to the experts from the Peterson Institute debate this question: Global Economic Prospects: S … more →
Little-Guy Capitalism
michaeloholmes wrote 2 weeks ago: Alvaro Vargas Llosa explains in Barron’s what the rich can learn from the poor about how to ge … more →
Hernando de Soto - Empowering the Poor
michaeloholmes wrote 2 weeks ago: Peruvian Hernando de Soto studied economics because he wanted to figure out why there are still so m … more →
International Trade and Economic Stability
michaeloholmes wrote 3 weeks ago: Many people think - or shall we say: feel? - that international trade leads to economic crisis, and … more →
How Globalisation Has Saved the U.S. Economy from Deeper Trouble
michaeloholmes wrote 3 weeks ago: Economic crisis can scare people so much that they are seduced by populists and demagogues. This rea … more →
Economic Freedom of the World 1975-2006
michaeloholmes wrote 3 weeks ago: An Interactive Map - Change years or zoom to countries! … more →
Focus: World Poverty - The Economic Freedom of the World Report 2008
michaeloholmes wrote 3 weeks ago: The Economic Freedom of the World Report is the most detailled and most important of its kind. It no … more →
Zimbabwe and Botswana: A Comparison
michaeloholmes wrote 3 weeks ago: Zimbabwe now has a unique chance of turning things around. To figure out how, Zimbabweans could lear … more →
"A Peaceful, Prosperous, Democratic Zimbabwe"
michaeloholmes wrote 3 weeks ago: Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is a real hero of nonviolence, peace and reconciliati … more →
Now That Hope Returns to Zimbabwe...
michaeloholmes wrote 3 weeks ago: …the world should not forget its darkest years, if it wants to help Zimbabweans rebuild their … more →
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