All Posts Tagged With: "government-to-government transfers"
Déjà vu All Over Again
“[A]ll things recur eternally. . . .” ––Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra Sometimes I think Nietzsche was right. It happens when I read things like this from the New York Times last January: “An international team sponsored by the United Nations proposed a detailed, ambitious plan on Monday that it says could halve extreme poverty and [...]
8Jul2010 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedAid, Trade, and Institutional Quality in Africa
Joshua Hall is pursuing his Ph.D. in economics at West Virginia University. Matthew Hisrich is a senior policy fellow with the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy in Kansas. Screenwriter Richard Curtis received a great deal of attention for his 2005 movie The Girl in the Café. The film was the big-screen component of the [...]
1Jan2007 | and Joshua C. Hall | 0 comments | ContinuedAn Alternative to Failed Foreign Aid
LAHORE, Pakistan-One of Lahore’s small Christian communities sits on army land and thus constitutes an illegal occupation in the government’s view. Most homes have one room. The latrines are makeshift, and families are lucky to survive on $20 a month. These are “very difficult times,” one resident told me. But these people have never seen [...]
1Aug2002 | Doug Bandow | 1 comment | Continued-
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