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...read it, I couldn't help but think that perhaps this was the country Vice President Dick Cheney was thinking about when he said our invading forces would be greeted as liberators. It's a shame that Saddam Hussein was so evil and his country so rich in resources that we had to get rid of him by force. Yet Burma, a country rich in culture and tradition, can only wait for U.N. sanctions that will take a while to go into effect and will only hurt the Burmese people instead of the junta the sanctions are aimed at. Kevin...
...Global Competitiveness Report that compares 125 countries, the World Bank and the World Economic Forum ranked Tunisia as having by far the best prospects for growth in Africa, and it ranked third in the Arab world after energy-rich Kuwait and Qatar. The report cited Tunisia's low corruption, stable government and educated, French-speaking population. Lying close to Europe's huge markets, and with an enticingly low-cost, well-trained workforce, Tunisia is increasingly seen by European and U.S. companies as a near-perfect base. French carmaker Peugeot recognized these advantages when it recently opted to move its customer...
...need natural resources to do that,” Frankel said. Dwight H. Perkins, a professor of political economy, said that China’s incredibly rapid growth should not come as a surprise, despite its lack of natural resources. “Countries that tend to be super rich in natural resources tend to be quite poor,” Perkins said. In an interview before the speech, Kynge said that he felt that the U.S. did not know how to adequately respond to China’s growing political influence in central and southeast Asia...
...important that developing countries are, in the future, subject to the same rigid emissions caps currently imposed upon developed nations, developed countries—the countries that historically have “caused” global warming—cannot afford to postpone action. If the U.S., a rich country with advanced green technology, does not make a commitment to reduce emissions, how can we ask developing countries with fewer resources to do the same? Further, reducing greenhouse gas emission will not harm the U.S. economy, at least for now. According to Robert Sawyer, chair of the California Air Resources...
...Libertarians fall into two categories: the Economic Libertarians, or Consequentialists, and the “Rights Based” Libertarians, or Deontologists. The Consequentialists are less theoretical, and believe that limited government plus a large amount of economic and social liberty would make us rich, happy, and moral...