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...ensures that growth lifts everyone. Mauritius is the only African nation to have eradicated malaria or provided free education and health care, and HIV/AIDS infects just 435 people a year. There have been no coups (Mauritius has no army), and its ethnicities--Indian, African, Chinese, European--are a model of integration...
Then again, most of these things were true 14 years ago, and Denmark's welfare-state model seemed exhausted, beset by stagnant growth and double-digit unemployment. Some on the political right--including current Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who wrote a book in 1993 called From Social State to Minimal State--were convinced that taxes and spending had to be cut dramatically. But that was never in the cards politically, and Social Democrat Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (there are a lot of Rasmussens in Denmark), who became Prime Minister that year, crafted a compromise that kept the high taxes...
...leaning government led by the author of From Social State to Minimal State took power, it barely changed a thing. Says Employment Minister Claus Hjort Fredriksen, also a former advocate of big cutbacks in the welfare state: "I have to admit now, 15 to 20 years later, that the model we have found here--free education, free health care, a good financial situation if you lose your job, together with a flexible labor market and the size of Danish companies--somehow has struck something that is the answer to the challenges of globalization...
That's exactly what some tea producers are trying to do. Tata Tea's Kanan Devan estate in Kerala, in southern India, gives each worker shares in the company. Although Tata is otherwise exiting the plantation business, this new ownership model has the unofficial support of many tea producers and trade-union leaders. Ambootia workers raise organic oranges and ginger, which the company markets abroad. At Makaibari Tea Estate in Darjeeling, owner Rajah Banerjee gives workers cows and buys back manure for use on the estate. "My mantra is, Partnership with workers, not ownership," says Banerjee...
...textbooks, is facing similar issues.“MIT is in about the same position that we are in wanting to make the collection of textbook information easier and more efficient,” Herschbach said. McCarty and Herschbach said that they would work to come up with a model for the proposed online book information system. “We do want to follow up on this,” McCarty said. “We’ll talk to MIT to see what they’re discussing.” -Staff writer Angela...