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Scandinavia regulates business less than anywhere else on earth
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Browsing through the Fraser Institute 2007 Economic Freedom of the World Report, http://www.freetheworld.com/release.html I discovered that the nations that regulate business the least in the world are Scandinavian: 1. Finland 2. Iceland 3. New Zealand... More »
Oscar Chiquitó Sabán
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I met Oscar Chiquitó Sabán over the weekend, a Guatemalen who is in the U.S. on a Fulbright scholarship. Oscar was raised in a one-room house made of cornstalks with his parents and four siblings. ... More »
Ron Bailey on Intangible Wealth
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With decent legal infrastructure and human capital development, every country can be wealthy: A Mexican migrant to the U.S. is five times more productive than one who stays home. Why is that? The answer is... More »
Democracy, GDP, and Natural Disasters
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A very important article: The average annual percentage of the global population killed by natural disasters decreased 10-fold from the period 1964 to 1968 compared with the period 2000 through 2004, from 0.01 percent (roughly... More »
Benefits of Economic Freedom
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A portion of the evidence that economic freedom is the most highly leveraged means of improving life for billions of people. From the Fraser Institute Economic Freedom of the World Report, 2007:
Human Development Index and GDP per Capita
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Note the dramatic improvement in Human Development Metrics going up to about $8,000 GDP per capita. increasing GDP per capita is the best way to help solve most global problems. Increasing economic freedom is the... More »
Solar Lamps and Colonias in Reynosa
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My November FLOW Newsletter highlights the solar lamp being developed by the John Ernest Foundation. This solar lamp, designed to replace kerosene use in poor households, currently retails for $55 in India. They seek to... More »
Empowering Women Entrepreneur Events
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FLOW is sponsoring two events on Empowering Women Entrepreneurs , a two-day version on Nov. 30th and Dec. 1st in Austin (one can come either or both days) and a one day version in San... More »
The Ultimate Act of Generosity
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When an unskilled Mexican laborer crosses the border from Mexico into the U.S., a day's worth of his or her hard work increases by a power of 10 - instead of receiving $6 for a... More »
Simeon Djankov, Hero and Genius
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A selection from "Measuring the Ease of Enterprise," a December 2007 paper by Simeon Djankov, the World Bank economist responsible for creating their "Doing Business" Index , and thereby a global hero for his role... More »
poverty
May 2008