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...start with the pet concerns of Sarkozy's star advisers. Sen, a development economist at Harvard, has long argued that health is a big part of living standards--and in 1990 he helped create the United Nations' Human Development Index, which combines health and education data with per capita GDP to give a more complete view of the wealth of nations (the U.S. currently comes in 12th, while on per capita GDP alone, it ranks second). Stiglitz, a Columbia professor and former World Bank chief economist, advocates a "green net national product" that takes into account the depletion of natural...
...first pushed from power in 2001. Corruption is fueling that growth: for example, the insurgency is funded by the cultivation of poppy and the smuggling of heroin, which many police and officials ignore. Last year Transparency International ranked Afghanistan 172 out of 180 countries surveyed for its Corruption Perceptions Index. "Corruption is the tree," says Parliamentarian Hossein Balkhi. "Terrorism, destabilization, smuggling and poppy are its branches; if you cut down corruption, the rest will...
...Transparency International ranked Afghanistan 172nd out of the 179 countries surveyed last year on its corruption-perceptions Index. Hardly surprising, then, that despite thousands more troops on the ground and billions of dollars in aid, the Taliban insurgency has only grown stronger. Ordinary Afghan people are fed up with a government that has squandered their faith and hope by pillaging whatever small treasures remain after 27 years at war. Yet they also resent the international forces that put that government in power but look away when it doesn't fulfill its duties. And the distance between the people...
...speculative bubble in housing reached its peak in the summer of 2006. As of last December, house prices were down 10.2% from that peak, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller National Home Price Index, and are still falling. Defaults are way up, and with the collateral behind even formerly sound home loans losing value by the day, defaults will surely keep rising...
...prevent disease,” Faust said in her Senate testimony on Tuesday morning. The additional funding represents an 8.4 percent increase over this year’s budget—well above inflation for biomedical research, which was 3.9 percent last year, according to a federal government index. Though the amendment passed the Senate 95-4, it faces a number of procedural hurdles before becoming law. Similar efforts have failed in the past, and Kevin Casey, Harvard’s associate vice president for government, community, and public affairs, said that despite the “strong support?...