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A new UN report says that women are the key to helping countries prepare for climate change and mitigating the damage. That is the intriguing idea that comes out of a new report, issued Tuesday by the United Nations Population...
Make no mistake about it: the health care bill that moved forward to debate in the Senate on Saturday is simply a power play by the government to gain more control over how we live our lives. In 1979, China's Deng Xiaoping...
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Australians can look forward to years of brisk economic growth built on booming resource investment, rapid population growth and rising household incomes, a top Australian central banker...
The rural population is at present estimated at 85 crores. Ten per cent of the households are completely landless. Another 52 per cent have holdings of less than 0.2 hectare. The per capita agricultural land in the rural areas...
Some 218 million people in Africa struggle with hunger daily – about 30 percent of the continent’s total population, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Most of those suffering from hunger are the...
The escalating conflict in Pakistan between the army and Islamic militants has, once again, brought to the fore the question whether the country is a failed state. To bring clarity to the issue, it might be useful to keep...
The International Herald Tribune, November 21, 2009 Saturday - In a series of meetings, Saudi government officials, bankers and agribusiness executives said they intended to spend billions of dollars to establish plantations to...
Mises Daily: Monday, November 23, 2009 by Murray N. Rothbard [This article is excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, vol. 1, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith.] In the 14th century that...
In 1930, Keynes predicted that by 2030, we'd be working a 15-hour week. But he underestimated our appetite for wealth The economic downturn has produced an explosion of popular anger against bankers' "greed" and their "obscene"...
With 5 percent of the world's population and the bulk of the world's oil and gas, the Arab world nonetheless lags behind most of the rest of the world and suffers from what can best be termed "educational poverty." Even before...
