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Ron Bailey on Intangible Wealth
Posted on Oct 7th, 2007
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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 »
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Democracy, GDP, and Natural Disasters
Posted on Oct 10th, 2007
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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 »
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Human Development Index and GDP per Capita
Posted on Oct 13th, 2007
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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 »
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poverty
May 2008