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Recommended

• Economic Freedom: The Path to African Prosperity, by Brett D. Schaefer (Heritage Fd.: 2/20/03)
• Constitutional Engineering and the Transition to Democracy in Post-Cold War Africa by John Mukum Mbaku (Independent Institute).
• The Ivory Bandwagon: International Transmission of Interest-Group Politics by W. Kaempfer and A. Lowenberg (Independent Institute).
• Third World Economic Development, by Clive Crook. Click here for notes on past wealth of Ghana in West Africa and defending austerity programs.
• Global Envision Web Site: reducing world poverty with open markets
• International Policy Network website (lots of globalization links)
• What does the crisis in Argentina tell us about globalization? (Cato page)
• Forbes Global: The Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto has radical ideas about how to end world poverty
• Forbes Global: Florence Wambugu is using GM foods to feed her country (Kenya)
• Acton Institute International Trade page
• Selective Free Trade harms US economy(Acton)
• Free Trade should be another arrow in America's Anti-Terrorist quiver, by Deroy Murdock

Globalization

• Acton Institute globalization page
• The Return to a Global Economy
• Economic Growth and Freedom in the Coming Millennium
• The Pen is Mightier Than the Plan (Latin America)
• America's Amazing Global Culture

Freedom Index

• Economic Freedom Needed
• Free the World! (FreetheWorld.com)
• Economic Freedom of the World, Annual Report 2002
• Heritage/WSJ 2001 Freedom Index
• Government & the Wealth of Nations

Africa

• Third World Economic Development, by Clive Crook. Click here for notes on past wealth of Ghana in West Africa and defending "austerity programs".
• Growing up in Kenya: June Arunga's Story
• Book review: Africa in Chaos
• Handouts no answer to Africa's poverty
• Africa Fighting Malaria
• UN got it wrong on DDT
• Why Africa Needs Agricultural Biotech
• African Inter Region Economic Network: where a free human mind is capital
• An American in Africa
• Moi Day: The CATO perspective, by James S. Shikwati

Middle East

• Free trade should be another arrow in America's anti-terrorist quiver by Deroy Murdock
• Minaret of Freedom Institute mission is to educate Muslims on the importance of liberty and free markets to a good society, while educating non-Muslims about the beliefs and contributions of Islam and the political realities of conflict between the two cultures.

Foreign Aid

• Handouts no answer to Africa's Poverty
• The Road to Hell (Amazon info.)
• Foreign Aid: Why Do It and What Works? (scholars notes from AEI conf.)

Trade & Investment

• Highly recommended: Acton Institute International Trade page
• Waking Dead Capital
• ISLAM AND MARKETS by Imad A. Ahmad, "The relationship between Islam and trade is not well appreciated in the west..."
• Domes of Trade (a thought experiment)
• Free Trade and Foreign Wars
• Free Trade or Fair Trade?

Environmental

• The Greening of the World Bank, a Cato Foreign Policy Briefing
• Biotech and LDC crops
• Delpoy DDT to Fight Malaria

Latin America

• An American in Argentina
• The Pen is Mightier Than the Plan