Lee on Aug 01 2008 | Filed under: Developmental economics, Economics, Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Namibian supermarket selection (photo: Olivier Peyre)
One of great inequities in the modern world is that in relative terms, food in poor and starving countries often costs far more than in the wealthy developed world. That’s because industrial countries tend to be dominated by large supermarket chains, which can achieve enormous economies of scale in volume [...]
Joshua Foust on Apr 14 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs
Neither George Snuffalufagus nor National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley seemed capable of distinguishing between Tibet and Nepal this weekend. Given that one is a Buddhist monarchy democratizing in fits and starts with a Maoist insurgency gaining a permanent foothold, and another one is a formerly Buddhist monarchy overrun five decades ago by Maoist foot soldiers… [...]
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