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Tag Archives: nepal
How Supermarkets Can End Poverty
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Developmental economics, Economics, Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged Africa, agriculture, Ashok Gulati, Asia, chains, consumers, developing, Economics, fdi, food, food prices, foreign direct investment, household, Hugo Chavez, India, inequity, International Food Policy Research Institute, Latin America, liberalization, nepal, poverty, revolution, scale, spending, supermarket, Thomas Reardon, United States, vegetables, Wal-Mart, world
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Tibet/Nepal: Same Thing
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs
Tagged foreign policy, nepal, stephen hadley, tibet, woops
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