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 To DDT or not to DDT...
DDT or not to DDT, that is the question...uses of DDT, Stop Pushing DDT, DDT Scaremongering Will Take Human Toll... Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,...See more on Economic Thinking's Africa page.
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 WaterHealth International - Leading the Blue Revolution
WaterHealth firm provides clean and safe water to save lives. Efforts in India discussed in Aug. 14, 2007 Wall Street Journal article. (more on NextBillion). Similar technology can provide major public health advance for Africa. See company website with details. Founder and President is Ghanaian Dr. Tralance Addy.
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Drawing clean water from the air. Science Daily reports new dew-collecting technology to draw clean water from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. According to the article: "one 315 sq ft unit can extract a minimum of 48 liters of fresh water per day. Depending upon the number of collucters used, an unlimited daily supply of water could be produced even in remote and polluted places."
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 Grameen Foundation Empowering people. Changing lives. Invovating for the world's poor.
Microfinance linked to health care improvements explains 2006 Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus at the 4th World Health Care Congress
Grameen Bank offers small loans to the poor, allowing them to escape local moneylenders: "the important thing is they must pay something, they must feel that this is a service they are buying, so that they feel equal, they don’t feel small. When you are taking something free, you feel small. You cannot claim, you cannot demand something, because you have not established any claim because you’re not paying. Payment is a claim that I do this and you do this. It’s a kind of two-way relationship.".
Transcript of 2007 speech • Transcript of 2005 speech . • Video.
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TCS Daily - Nairobi's Plastic Bags are Barking
A brief piece on on plastic bags in Nairobi as indicators. Property rights are costly to advance from traditional to modern. In Africa, independence came at the nadir of understanding and appreciation of secure "3D" property rights (Definable, Defensible, Divestible). Tom Bethell's The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity through the Ages reports on the strange lack on interest in property rights in the twentieth century. Hernando de Soto, in The Other Path and The Mystery of Capital explains the impoverishing consequences of trying to develop without sound legal institutions.
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I was introduced to Milton Friedman some years ago at a Pacific Research Institute conference on immigration. Nervous and not knowing what to say, I blurted out "I really like your ideas!" Milton showed me his trademark smile and said with emphasis "They are not my ideas"! He knew I was referring not to the scholarly economic work that had won him a Nobel Prize in Economics (which were his ideas), but to the classical liberal ideas in his book Capitalism and Freedom and in the TV documentary series Free to Choose. -- Greg Rehmke
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John Quincy Adams' July 4th, 1821 speech. Often quoted from on the internet for his brief mention of foreign policy ("America does not go abroad searching for monsters to destroy"). But the rest of the speech is a broader discussion of the principles of liberty. Click here for beginning of Adams' speech on our ET Blog (with links to pamphlet with full speech).
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Institute for Economic Studies Seminars for college students at IES-Europe Summer University.
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