Economic Development

Third World Sweatshops: Part II

by Thomas Sowell Townhall.com January 2004 Those who vent their moral indignation over low pay for Third World workers employed by multinational companies ignore the plain fact that these workers’ employers are usually supplying them with better opportunities than they had before, while those who are morally indignant on their behalf are providing them with nothing. Some […]

May 14, 2004  /  No Comments ››

FrontPage interview with author Paul Driessen

FrontPage interview with author Paul Driessen by Jamie Glazov FrontPageMagazine.com February 2004 Frontpage Interview has the pleasure to have Paul Driessen as its guest today. Mr. Driessen is a senior fellow with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise and Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow — and the director […]

February 12, 2004  /  No Comments ››

Eco-Imperialism: The greatest threat to Africa’s future

by Paul K. Driessen Congress of Racial Equality Press Release “What about the people?” asks Fifi Kobusingye, a designer and businesswoman in Kampala, Uganda. “The mosquitoes are everywhere. You think you’re safe, and you’re not. Europeans and Americans can afford to deceive themselves about malaria and pesticides. But we can’t.” “If we don’t use DDT,” adds David […]

January 21, 2004  /  No Comments ››

Third World Sweatshops

by Thomas Sowell Townhall.com January 2004 “Low-Wage Costa Ricans Make Baseballs for Millionaires.” That was the headline on one of those New York Times “news” stories that continued its recent tradition of disguised editorials. The headline said it all but the story ran on and on anyway, with details and quotes that added nothing to […]

January 14, 2004  /  No Comments ››

Give the Gift of Life

by Paul K. Driessen TechCentralStation & Knight Ridder Tribune December 29, 2003 During this holiday season, many of us were focused even more than usual on helping people and making the world a better place. Seemingly endless solicitations bid us to support causes that seem eminently worthy. Well-fed, safe in our modern homes, minutes away […]

December 29, 2003  /  No Comments ››

United Nations Day of Shame

by Henry Miller and Gregory Conko TechCentralStation.com October 2003 UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan recently declared that the global pursuit of scientific endeavors is marked by inequality. Noting that developing countries invest much less on scientific research and produce fewer scientists, Annan warned that the resulting imbalance in the geographic distribution of scientific activity creates problems […]

October 14, 2003  /  No Comments ››

The lull in trade

by Nizam Ahmad Eco-Imperialism.com LONDON, September 2003 In Bangladesh, extensive media coverage and government work will be visible now due to the biennial WTO Ministerial Conference, held this year in Cancun, Mexico. Government officials, macro-economists and NGOs will argue trade terms at the Conference and after. Documented as a weak trade negotiator, Bangladesh will certainly […]

September 12, 2003  /  No Comments ››

The real posion is dishonesty

by Jay Ambrose Scripps Howard News Service WASHINGTON, DC, July 2003 President Bush, who seems honestly to care about the misery of the African people, could do them no better service on his trip to their continent than to speak out loud and clear about how fanatical, well-off, Western environmentalists are annually killing hundreds of […]

July 12, 2003  /  No Comments ››