Posted By:  deane034 Posted On:  Jul 5, 2008	Don't tell Cabraal
Apparently the German government is doing Zimbabwians a favor by stopping the Munich-based company which provides the 'high quality' paper for the Zimbabwian central bank to print it's bank notes which creates the countries' million percent inflation. The WSJ has more . Incidentally, it's the...... [view]

Posted By:  ReillyY Posted On:  Jul 4, 2008	Canada Needs a Consensus on Carbon: CCCE
I’ve never been a big fan of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives , but you’ve got to admit - if they that something is good for business, chances are it’s good for business. So when CCCE head Thomas d’Aquino suggests that Canada needs to get its act together...... [view]

Posted By:  yajitha Posted On:  Jun 29, 2008	The Dead-End Formula of Neo-Liberal Economics
Although I teach economics at the University of Peradeniya for my bread and butter, I have been quite distant from the discipline for sometime and my readings on the subject has been quite limited to the two courses I teach at the university. My principal research work is on conflicts. Hence, it...... [view]

Posted By:  deane034 Posted On:  Jun 27, 2008	Drew Carey on Free Trade
Drew Carey in another installment of his series at Reason.tv takes a swing at the U.S. protectionists' (Obama-types) fear mongering over NAFTA. Something that's rarely understood by protectionist all over the world is that the biggest source of "job losses" is technology, not...... [view]

Posted By:  deane034 Posted On:  Jun 24, 2008	What's Sri Lanka's gas tax?
As readers of this blog would know , I have been trying to figure out what the total tax for petrol and diesel in Sri Lanka. I put the question out in a r elated article in LBO . Some people responded, you can read them here . I'm reproducing, without permission, the comment by ddm (who, by...... [view]

Posted By:  ighih Posted On:  Jun 22, 2008	Peak-a-boo
You’ve heard it before - we are running out of stuff. Peak oil, peak food, peak xyz. Resource consumption generally follows a bell curve, where we increasingly consume something until we can’t consume it any faster, and then we start to run out of it and its use declines just as...... [view]

Posted By:  ascendency Posted On:  Jun 22, 2008	Peak-a-boo
You’ve heard it before - we are running out of stuff. Peak oil, peak food, peak xyz. Resource consumption generally follows a bell curve, where we increasingly consume something until we can’t consume it any faster, and then we start to run out of it and its use declines just as...... [view]

Posted By:  KarstenWenzlaff Posted On:  Jun 22, 2008	Description of Model G8 Youth Summit
The following description of the Model G8 Youth Summit Project was drafted by me and Tom Hartley. It is also availabe as a PDF-Document , as well as Previous Communiqués from 2007 and 2008 . Model G8 Youth Summit - Yokohama, 10th of March-15th of March 2008 Introduction The Model G8...... [view]

Posted By:  ighih Posted On:  Jun 21, 2008	Power Shift to Economic Justice and Democracy
No sooner than I started to put my thoughts about the environment and markets onto paper, did I stumble upon a concrete example of one of the main things I was thinking about. I got out of bed this morning, went downstairs to make myself a cup of coffee, went outside to the end of the...... [view]

Posted By:  ascendency Posted On:  Jun 21, 2008	Power Shift to Economic Justice and Democracy
No sooner than I started to put my thoughts about the environment and markets onto paper, did I stumble upon a concrete example of one of the main things I was thinking about. I got out of bed this morning, went downstairs to make myself a cup of coffee, went outside to the end of the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jun 19, 2008	The Elephant and The Ant
REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL: IT would seem there's no topic worthy of addressing that would not bore our patient readers, after the “Round Table” program of June 12, which dealt with the new edition of a book published in Bolivia 15 years ago, featuring now a prologue I wrote. During this...... [view]

Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa
Submitted By:   bukamu Website:  http://www.yaldafrica.org Phone:  +267 72104029 E-mail:  yaldafrica@gmail.com	Vision:   The Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa (Yalda) envisions an international network of inspired, empowered and proactive young African leaders who hold influential decision-making positions, are running......   [view]

Submitted By:   R0BERT Event Date:  Mar 18, 2008 Event Location:  Confederation College [view]

Green North Eco Conference

Submitted By:   pfogarty Event Date:  Apr 29, 2008 Event Location:  Valhalla Inn [view]

Regional Economic Development Conference