Daily Policy Digest
International Issues
| CATCHING UP A new reading program in England is attempting to get children to enjoy reading... |
| IMPROVING ON SUCCESS Canadian air quality has substantially improved since the 1970s... |
| WHEN COMING CLEAN COSTS TOO MUCH Around 120,000 requests for information are filed under the British Freedom of Information Act every year -- many are frivolous and costly... |
| CASTRO'S SPECIAL CARE While Cuba's "free" health care leaves ordinary Cubans in abysmal conditions, Fidel Castro is enjoying the best of the free world... |
| LEARNING FROM MAURITIUS Mauritius has turned away from protectionist measures, implementing market reforms to improve economic freedom and growth... |
| WEALTH INEQUALITY WIDENING WORLDWIDE In 2000, the top 1 percent of the world's population accounted for about 40 percent of the world's total net worth, while the bottom half of the population owned merely 1.1 percent... |
| THE PERSISTENTLY POOR World Bank programs have failed to lift incomes in many poor countries over the past decade... |
| INDONESIAN LABOR RULES TAKE TOLL ON INVESTMENT Indonesia's 2003 labor law is discouraging new investment at a time the country urgently needs to create jobs... |
| JAPAN, THE JURY Japan is set to reintroduce a jury system after 60 years without one, despite the fact that 70 percent of Japanese don't want to be jurors... |
| ACHTUNG, KILLERTOMATEN! The economic burden of green energy policies is forcing many Germans to burn more coal and wood... |
