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Back from Afghanistan: Unanswered Questions

Sunday, May 30, 2004

by Laurent Demarta, Pertuis, France I recently lived for three months in Afghanistan. MÃ©decins Sans FrontiÃ¨res (MSF) had sent me with a team of three others to a remote valley in the Indu Kush, at an altitude of more than 2000 meters. The weather was clear and icy cold. Our house was built of round [...]

Still Against Free Trade

Friday, May 14, 2004

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A Review of William Easterly’s “The Elusive Quest for Growth” by Julian Dautremont-Smith In “The Elusive Quest for Growth,” William Easterly methodically explains that previous approaches to development â€” such as â€œclosing the financing gap,â€ education, population control, structural adjustment lending, and debt forgiveness â€” have all failed because they fail to take into account [...]

Time for a Tobin Tax?

Monday, January 5, 2004

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by Julian Dautremont-Smith A Tobin Tax is a small tax on foreign exchange transactions. This paper shows that a Tobin Tax would have the triple benefits of: 1) increased monetary autonomy, 2) greater exchange rate stability, and 3) sizeable revenues to fund international development and environmental protections. The paper examines common arguments against the establishment [...]

Open Source Software: Fair Trade for Software

Sunday, January 4, 2004

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Free Open Source Software: Pros and Cons from a Development Perspective by Simon Schneebeli Software has reached a very high importance for our society. However, software is not just software. Actually there exist two quite distinct worlds of software. At the Forum on Information and Communication Technology for Development ICT- 4D that was held in [...]

Bridging the Digital Divide in Sierra Leone

Saturday, January 3, 2004

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Helping More Young People in Sierra Leone Gain Access to Information Communication Technology by Morie Alpha Despite the fact that Information Technology is the hub of our modern world economy, access to it is yet severely strained in Africa. The infrastructure for the development of IT on continent is rudimentary, and the few existing infrastructure [...]

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Back from Afghanistan: Unanswered Questions

Still Against Free Trade

Time for a Tobin Tax?

Open Source Software: Fair Trade for Software

Bridging the Digital Divide in Sierra Leone

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