A Modest Proposal: Tax Joe Stiglitz at 100 Percent

Read Full Article>> http://newsdoors.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-modest-proposal-tax-joe-stiglitz-at.html A Modest Proposal: Tax Joe Stiglitz at 100 Percent Joseph Stiglitz, yet another Nobel Prize winner in economics who has forsaken economic analysis, writes in the...

Woman Shaping Africa's Tech Revolution

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/24/world/marieme-jamme-africa-technology/index.html?iref=obinsite (CNN) -- Senegalese-born Marieme Jamme is at the forefront of the technology revolution that is slowly transforming Africa. As chief executive of Spot One...

Environmentalism: The Rational Stance

There are any number of people who conflate environmentalism with Marxism. It is time that this myth, like many others, be put to rest.That someone is in agreement with one of Marx's stances - and Marx was an extremely voluminous writer who addressed many subjects in his work...

Resistance to dam project grows in south Gujarat

(This article originally appeared on InfoChangeIndia.org) It was noon and the sun could no longer hide behind the clouds. One by one, women trickled in to sit on the black tarpaulin laid under a cluster of bamboo trees. Behind them sat the men, in the shade. K P...

Entertaining the Masses in Developing, Poor Countries

The cramped offices of Toper, Macedonia’s leading publisher of reference works, are a shrine to the book. Thickset tomes – mainly translations from the English – are strewn everywhere. The proud owners show us their latest crop: two beautifully bound, quality paper...

Startup Weekend Cairo Wrap-Up

Hello all my fellow reader! I'm sorry for not being able to write for soooooo long…its juts that I did TOO much in the past few days. The American University in Cairo hosted the first ever Startup Weekend Cairo, which kicked off this last Thursday, meticulously organized by...

The Morality of Child Labor

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" From the comfort of their plush offices and five to six figure salaries, self-appointed NGO's often denounce child labor as their employees rush from one five star hotel to another, $3000 subnotebooks and...

Is GDP best for measuring development?

The per capita income of USA is about USD 42,000 per annum while that of China is about USD 3000 to 4000. Yet China has taken the second place in the world in economic growth (or wealth). But is GDP best for measuring economic growth or development? Does it measure social,...