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Yet economists contend that Indonesia's performance could match that of India and China if Yudhoyono presses reforms further. The most damaging, and most politically sensitive, issue dampening investment is the nation's oppressive labor law. Passed in 2003, it requires companies to get government approval to lay off staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Holding Indonesia Back? | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

No to Class War Michael Kinsley is right to condemn affirmative action based on social class [Aug. 25]. This proposal is a logical extension of the compassionate but misguided urge to reward human inadequacy and punish achievement so as to achieve an egalitarian leveling of success in life. From childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

The first task will be defending New Orleans, which was betrayed during Katrina by badly designed and constructed Corps flood walls as well as by a misguided Corps navigation canal called the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, which intensified storm surges. The Corps has pledged that by 2011, the city will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gustav's Lessons for New Orleans | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

It would be easy to cast Tata Motors as the villain in this story - it is run by a super-wealthy car buff who comes from one of India's most famous industrialist families. But the real - and much less colorful - bad guy in the Singur debacle is India's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The People vs. the People's Car | 9/3/2008 | See Source »

Mexico's Cocaine Chaos Drug violence in Mexico is a consequence of the misguided war on drugs and the fact that drugs are illegal in the first place [Aug. 25]. If drugs were legalized, the profit incentive for criminals and the attendant violence would largely disappear. This would also leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pointing Fingers over Georgia | 9/2/2008 | See Source »

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