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Measles campaign success in Africa
A study in The Lancet (free registration required) measures the success of a partnership to reduce…
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Aid and the UN Summit
Tim Worstall reacts to an article by Bill Easterly which I quoted here last week. Bill…
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Dismal economists don’t understand opportunity cost
Only 22 percent of American professional economists understand the idea of opportunity cost. This is the…
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Eight ways to change the world
The Guardian has an online photograph exhibition about the eight Millennium Development Goals. Jeff Sachs’s introduction…
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The enquiry into Katrina
I am not sure yet if President Bush is seriously planning to conduct his own enquiry…
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Statement of the bleedin’ obvious
Patti Waldmeir in today’s Financial Times (subscription required) about the death of William Rehnquist, who died…
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Out of the rubble
President Bush, at 10.30am this morning, arriving in Mobile Alabama: The good news is — and…
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What the bomber did not say
Brian Barder (my father) rightly points out that everything in the Guardian’s report of the tape…
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New Orleans: Mad Max meets WaterWorld
We are witnessing appalling scenes from New Orleans, reminiscent of the dystopic vision of Mad Max…
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