Daily Policy Digest
International Issues
| CHÃ?VEZ GRABS AGAIN FOR LIFE TENURE Intimidation is on the rise in Venezuela as a major referendum approaches, says columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady... |
| A TYRANT'S "LIBERATION" This year marks 50 years of Cuban misery, says Otto Reich, former assistant secretary of state and special envoy for Western Hemisphere affairs under Pres. George W. Bush... |
| MEASURING THE UNFUNDED OBLIGATIONS OF EUROPEAN COUNTRIES By 2020, the average European Union country will need to raise the tax rate to 55 percent of national income to pay promised benefits, says economist Jagadeesh Gokhale... |
| HOW MUCH FOR A LOAF OF BREAD? How bad is Zimbabwe's hyper-infaltion?... |
| OF ANTIBIOTICS AND GLOBALIZATION What is the link between protectionism and pill-popping?... |
| A GANGSTER HAS MANY FACES Sending a stream of money into corrupt and unstable countries is a bad idea, say authors Edward Miguel and Raymond Fisman... |
| EUROPE'S SMOKING CULTURE LINGERS, DESPITE BANS Although many European countries have introduced bans on smoking in public, Europeans are having a hard time stamping out their nicotine habit... |
| CORPORATE WELFARE: A $182 BILLION ADDICTION In 2006 alone, Canada's federal, provincial, and local governments spent $19.3 billion on corporate welfare, almost double the 1995 figure of $10.3 billion, according to report... |
| WHY DON'T WE HANG PIRATES ANYMORE? Piracy is increasing because we don't know what to do with pirates, say observers... |
| THE PRICE OF PIRACY The long-term solution to piracy will not be found at sea, but rather on land, says Arthur Bowring, managing director of the Hong Kong Shipowners' Association... |
