Daily Policy Digest
International Issues
| DEMOGRAPHY IS NOT DESTINY Four out of 10 older Europeans are unemployed or inactive because of a number of barriers to employment, say researchers... |
| NATURAL DISASTER HOTSPOTS More than one-third of the U.S. population lives in hazard-prone areas, say researchers... |
| HOW TO WIN FREEDOM Policy makers should offer support to nascent civic resistance movements in order to foster democratic change, say observers... |
| DUES CONSIDERATION American taxpayers foot nearly a quarter of the total United Nation's budget and almost a fourth of its peacekeeping tab, say observers... |
| INTERACTIONS BETWEEN U.S. AND EUROPEAN MARKETS On average, about 26 percent of movement in European financial assets is attributable to developments in U.S. financial markets, say researchers... |
| TEENAGE KICKS Deaths from chronic liver disease among Britons aged 25-44 are nearly ten times higher than in 1970, say observers... |
| LESSONS OF STATISM No poor country has achieved lasting convergence under any of the statist or failed-state systems, say observers... |
| HALF OF EUROPE'S CITIZENS KNOW TWO LANGUAGES Half of European citizens speak a second language, according to a European Union survey... |
| SCOTLAND TOPS LIST OF WORLD'S MOST VIOLENT COUNTRIES Scotland is the most violent country in the developed world, according to the United Nations... |
| RULES FOR NATIONS Moral obligation has no place in international law, since the ultimate purpose of a state is to secure rights for its own citizens, says Thomas Meaney... |
