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Cleanwatts, a leading climate tech scaleup, has signed a contract with the Government of São Tomé and Príncipe for the production and sale of affordable clean energy. Working with the country's public

Abstract: The Heritage Foundation began ranking trade freedom around the world in 1995. The newest rankings (to appear in the 2011 Index of Economic Freedom) show global trade freedom as high as it has ever been. That is encouraging: Countries with higher levels of trade freedom have higher levels of economic prosperity. Still, the latest average score showed only a slight improvement, and far too many people continue to live in poverty because their political leaders have blocked attempts at op...

The World Bank has not been successful in catalyzing economicdevelopment. President Bush's proposal to replace InternationalDevelopment Association loans with performance-based grants is areasonable recommendation

A Global Reality Check

Although Congress is split over whether the stimulus package shouldbe comprised of tax cuts or spending increases or some combinationof both, lessons derived from such past efforts at home and abroaddemonstrate that strategies relying on increased spending willfail. Indeed, such lessons also suggest that such strategies makethings worse by diverting scarce resources away from productive usein the private sector.

The latest rankings of trade freedom around the world,[1] included by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal in the forthcoming 2016 Index of Economic Freedom, confirm that citizens of countries that embrace free trade are better off than those in countries that do not. The data continue to show a strong correlation between trade freedom and a variety of positive indicators, including economic prosperity, low poverty rates, and clean environments.

The well-being of human populations and their sustainable development are strongly predicated on energy and food security. This is even more true of Africa due to often suboptimal food production, undernourishment, and extreme poverty. This article researches the relationship between energy and food security using Cobb–Douglas production functions based on the World Development Indicators data for 28 African countries. The methodological approach includes cross-sectional dependence and unit ro...

Instead of threatening to impose barriers against inexpensiveimports, the Bush Administration should (1) advance free tradeagreements and lead WTO negotiations to eliminate protectionistpolicies that benefit a small group of Americans at the expense ofmost other citizens and (2) lower the tax and regulatory burden onU.S. companies so that they can be more competitive.

To ensure that the U.S. maintains its leadership position as thespecter haunting a stagnant Europe, Congress should this year enacta significant tax relief of the type and magnitude recommended bythe President.

For the last few days, a number of vernacular and English language newspapers are competition in portraying a horrific future for Bangladesh, stating the | BLiTZ