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The Costs of Incomplete Privatizations

Across Latin America, a growing number of people say the privatization of public services, a movement that swept the region in the 1980s and 1990s, has failed. Protests have erupted over the issue in several countries, and some governments are beginning to reverse these policies. Last week Argentina...

Responding to Skeptics

Noam Chomsky responds to a question about feasibility of Latin American countries developing an alternative to the Washington Consensus and provides his view of globalization. The term "globalization," like most terms of public discourse, has two meanings: its literal meaning, and a technical sense ...

Revolution Interrupted?

On Sunday, the "last dictator" in Europe was reelected with an astounding 83% of the vote. It came as no surprise to anyone that Alyaksandr Lukashenka won, or that he won by such a majority. Of course, the election was fraudulent, the opposition leaders were harassed and jailed, and pre-election...

Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Forgiveness

Do post-conflict countries which concentrate on retribution and vengeance have worse growth prospects than post-conflict countries which concentrate on forgiveness and acceptance? “Yes!” according to Pete Boettke and Chris Coyne of George Mason University, who build the argument in t...

A Social Protection Plan for Latin America?

The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL) announced yesterday in a press release that a Social Protection Plan will be unveiled on March 22, 2006 during the 31st meeting of the Commission in Montevideo, Uruguay. According to CEPAL, only four out of every ten ...

Two Ways of Dealing With Free Trade

Indigenous groups in Ecuador are standing firm against the proposed free trade agreement with the United States. Indians in Ecuador fear that the free trade agreement, when signed, will threaten their culture and wipe out their agricultural industry. Reports Reuters: Indian protesters are dema...

Corruption in Northern Iraq

This morning the New York Times is reporting on violence and protest in Iraq that are not directly related to the war. Yesterday, residents of Halabja, a city in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, destroyed the Halabja Monument, a shrine commemorating the deaths of the 5,000 people that were kil...

Corruption Deprives People from Access to Safe Drinking Water

I just read this summary of a report that the United Nations published. The negative impact that corruption can have on basic human needs is truly alarming. Corruption plays a crucial yet nearly invisible role in depriving nearly a fifth of the world's population of access to safe drinking water, ...

Catallactic Competition

Not that I want to bore you with an economic theory discussion, but I was going through "Human Action" by Ludwig von Misses and thought that his comments on free competition merit your interest. Economists, Misses argues, generally advocate for free competition - one means of achieving it, for e...

Upping the Ante for Anti-Corruption

CIPE's programs around the world have always included a strong component focusing on anti-corruption. Today, CIPE works with partners in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Columbia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Russia to eliminate corrupt practices at all levels of society. ...

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