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...where the roadmap goes into extensive detail on the steps necessary to restore Israeli security, it grows distinctly fuzzy when addressing issues of occupation. The first phase requires that the Palestinians renounce armed struggle, dismantle all organizations wielding arms outside of the formal security services of the PA, and reform Palestinian institutions (code, in U.S. and Israeli parlance, for sidelining Yasser Arafat). The requirements of Israel in the same first phase are limited to easing the humanitarian plight of the Palestinians, withdrawing from towns reoccupied by the Israeli Defense Force and dismantling settlements built in the course of the current...
...advisers with solid Republican credentials. Joining Buffett as head of the campaign's "economic recovery council" will be George Shultz, who was Ronald Reagan's Secretary of State. The campaign is sounding out right-leaning Republicans to fill its advisory groups on education and children's policies, government reform, the environment and--the thorniest issue--budget and fiscal policy...
...basis for supply-side economics--is one of those whose advice the actor has sought. Laffer says Schwarzenegger told him, "I am the tax terminator." Although Laffer, a flat-tax advocate, has not formally joined the team, he may be asked to develop ideas for long-term tax reform. Others being consulted include former presidential candidate Steve Forbes and Michael Boskin, the Stanford University economist who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under the first President Bush...
...this way India is mimicking--and still trailing--Asia's other Goliath: China. Beijing's cadres embraced market reform much earlier than their Indian counterparts did--back in the late 1970s--and have been much more devoted to liberalization. As a result, China's per-capita income, now about $900, has been growing at least twice as fast as India's for the past 20 years. With incomes rising in China, foreign investors found a more sizable market for their wares there than in India. For example, China has 230 million mobile-phone users, India a measly 18 million...
...this way India is mimicking?and still trailing?Asia's other Goliath: China. Beijing's cadres embraced market reform much earlier than their Indian counterparts did?back in the late 1970s?and have been much more devoted to liberalization. As a result, China's per-capita income, now about $900, has been growing at least twice as fast as India's for the past 20 years. With incomes rising in China, foreign investors found a more sizable market for their wares there than in India. For example, China has 230 million mobile-phone users, India a measly 18 million...