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Agricultural subsidies continue to hurt the poorest farmers
Blog Author: Caroline BoinWhile the UN gives Africa more unhelpful advice on agriculture, US reports show that, despite promises of reform, the wealthiest US farmers are still receiving the bulk of...
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Proof that Obama’s tyre tariff didn’t “save” US jobs
Blog Author: Timothy CoxMore evidence that Obama’s tariff on Chinese tyre imports (Sept 2009) did little more than precipitate reciprocal tariffs from Beijing. According to the latest figures,...
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Monbiot at odds with UN on deforestation
Blog Author: Caroline BoinMonbiot says that, along with the catastrophic oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, deforestation in the US is proof that richer does not mean greener.Strange claim considering...
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Time to kick the tariffs
Blog Author: Alec van GelderWhy tariffs mean that the rich pay less than the poor. The solution isn’t to make the rich pay more than the poor, but to get rid of the absurd tariff system...
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Ridiculous trade rules marginalise the world’s poorest
Blog Author: Alec van GelderOpen markets allow people to trade their way out of poverty, but rich countries continue to impose harmful restrictions upon imports from developing countries, even if...
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US drugs bureaucracy is costing money and lives
The Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) continues to thwart Americans’ access to new life-saving medicines, costing billions of dollars and uncountable lives. An article in the Washington Examiner...
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Canada’s lesson to the G-20 and the world
Blog Author: Alec van GelderScott Lincicome has a great op-ed explaining how Canada was one of the first large economies to recover from the Great Recession not by embarking on a massive round of...
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Oliver Stone wants US to learn from Chavez!
Blog Author: Matthew Ridley Oliver Stone’s new film, South of the Border, heaps praise on Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, for his experiment in “21st-century socialism”. Mr Stone has now gone even...
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Wrong Tax, Wrong Disease
Authors: Eamonn ButlerDate and timePublished date: Saturday, July 31, 2010Teaser: Officials and activists (and a slightly equivocal Bill Clinton) at the recent world AIDS conference in Vienna want a...
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What do AIDS activists want more money for?
Authors: Roger EnglandDate and timePublished date: Wednesday, July 28, 2010Teaser: UNAIDS has inflated its HIV/AIDS figures for years and now claims the natural decline of AIDS as a victory (it started...
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