Zimbabwe: Why Politics Should not Hurt Sports
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
By David Coltart
"The economy has stabilised. Schools have been reopened. Hospitals and clinics now have drugs and the cholera epidemic of 2008 stopped. There has been a massive downturn in the number of human rights abuses."
Disastrous Economic Fallacies - Terror as Stimulus?
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Do natural disasters, earthquakes, or wars stimulate an economy and create growth? Did World War 2 get the US out of the Great Depression? Frederic Bastiat explained why such thinking is fallacious in this video from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation.
The Profit-Interest Gap
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
The ability to interpret and understand economic data in terms of patterns, relationships, connections and structures that are likely to prevail in the future is critical if we are to make sound economic decisions today.
Read Steve H. Hanke's latest article here.
Steve H. Hanke is a Professor of Applied Economics at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.
Bringing Light, Health and Prosperity to Africa
US energy and environmental policies must help Africa improve the lives of its people
Roy Innis and Niger Innis
Saharan Africa is home to 800 million people, 80% of whom live on less than $2.50 per day. Over 700 million people – twice the population of the USA and Canada combined – rarely or never have access to the lifesaving, prosperity-creating benefits of electricity.
IMANI: Running Commentary on a Few Recent Developments
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Oil Prices, Green Business, Employment and Statistics......
Why Zimbabweans Starve
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Rejoice Ngwenya, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Rejoice Ngwenya simply rejects Mugabe’s cohorts anthem of western sanctions being responsible for starvation in Zimbabwe. He explains that before sanctions, there was enough plunder cloaked as “land revolution” to get the country into trouble.
Announcing 1st Money-Prized Essay Contest & Application to our 2010 Educational Festival
The 2010 Students & Young Professionals African Liberty Academy (SYPALA)
August 15-21, 2010 - UNIVERSITY OF DODOMA, Tanzania
After four years of successfully hosting SYPALA, one of the most educative programmes on the continent in West Africa, it is time to take our week-long education fiesta to the East.
This year’s seminar would be held in Tanzania in order to enable our many East African applicants who for want of travel funds have not been able to enjoy the life-enriching encounters to do just that.
