All Posts Tagged With: "food prices"
Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa
The escalating price of oil, the world’s growing population, and its increasing demand for food have all received blame for rising worldwide food prices. What is often overlooked is that a significant portion of the world’s population is unable to feed itself—because of politics. That is the greater, more frightening problem.
Today much of Africa remains [...]
Eating Disorder: How Governments Raise Food Prices
Arthur Foulkes writes for the Terre Haute Tribune-Star in Indiana.
Higher food prices may be frustrating Americans, but they are literally killing people in the least industrialized parts of the world. Hundreds of millions of the world’s poorest people—who live close to starvation even in good years—are facing malnutrition and chronic hunger. The absolute poorest are [...]
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
