posted by devonwhittle on Aug 18, 2008
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Rodrik’s article in the Guardian makes some good points about the recent failure over Doha. Let’s hope that when things get back on track we can get a real development agenda going and the
WTO can start living up to its preamble more.
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posted by devonwhittle on Aug 18, 2008
Barter is alive and well in Zimbabwe, we all know that, it also turns out that
petrol vouchers are now being used as a medium of exchange.
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posted by devonwhittle on Aug 10, 2008
Free trade advocates have often used the promise of democracy to encourage free trade at any cost. That is, they believe that wealth will naturally lead to a democratic society, so can justify increasing trade with authoritarian states on the basis that this will lead to demands for better governance from a rising middle class. But is that what we are seeing in China? Robert Reich
questions this doctrine, pointing out the rise of ‘authoritarian capitalism’ in China rather then the ‘democratic capitalism’ hoped for.
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posted by devonwhittle on Aug 7, 2008
Tax carbon, refund the profits to everyone.
You know it makes sense, and
others agree.
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posted by devonwhittle on Aug 5, 2008
According to
Peter Gallagher, the government (taxpayers) gave the car industry $1.1 billion last year. That means each “job saved” cost us $300,000. Not sure how he crunched the numbers (that is, if it considered jobs created in subsidiary industries, etc), but that number is pretty astounding. Why not spend that on retraining and re-employment help instead of throwing more money at the industry?
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