Daily Policy Digest
International Issues
| WHY WON'T NEW ZEALAND CUT TAXES? Since the Labor Party took power in 1999, taxes have become quite burdensome for New Zealanders... |
| THE NEW GLOBAL SLAVE TRADE Each year, an estimated 12 million people are subjected to human trafficking in their own country or taken across borders to become slaves elsewhere... |
| MUSLIM BIRTHRATE WORRIES RUSSIA Russia's overall population is falling at a rate of 700,000 people a year, largely because of the short life spans and low birthrates of ethnic Russians... |
| WILL SUPER-HIGH CHINESE GROWTH CONTINUE? If foreign direct investment inflows level off (as appears to have happened in 2005), the sustainability of Chinese growth in the 7 to 10 percent range may be doubtful... |
| LACK OF SANITATION HAS HUMAN COST Lack of access to clean water and basic sanitation kills nearly 2 million children each year, or about 5,000 a day... |
| AFRICA STAGNATES WHILE WORLD GETS RICHER People in Norway are more than 40 times wealthier than people in Niger and they live almost twice as long... |
| 60 MILLION CHINESE ARE CONSIDERED OBESE About 60 million Chinese are obese and junk food is blamed... |
| THE WEALTH OF NATIONS Improving the quality of labor can help poor countries achieve economic growth better than financial aid... |
| MIGRANTS' MONEY IS IMPERFECT CURE FOR POOR NATIONS Reliance on foreign remittances may turn out to be the latest development fad that fails to live up to its hype... |
| GERMANY'S ARMY Germany should expand its military and undertake a greater role in global security, say observers... |
