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Economic Reforms for the Poor
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An upcoming talk at Stanford; a marvelous validation of the core concerns of our Accelerating Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) program as well as all the focus on De Soto , North , the Doing Business rankings... More »
Increasing the wealth of the world by an amount equal to the U.S.
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I recently calculated that the 122 nations ranked by Fraser Index averaged a rate of growth of 1.7% from 2000-2005. The twenty nations that had the highest gains in economic freedom from 1995-2005 averaged a... More »
A Young Ethiopian Activist vs. Jeffery Sachs on Poverty
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Samuel Gebru, an 11th grade Ethiopian activist living in Cambridge, Mass, offers the following insightful remarks on the causes contributing to poverty in Ethiopia: In Ethiopia today, everyone is deprived of an integral part of... 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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:
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 »
poverty
June 2008