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Yes, we have bananas. We just can't ship them.

From Friday's New York Times, a piece I wrote in a personal capacity: At this week's ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization in Hong Kong, negotiators have once again hit an…

Tim Harford|
Environment, Health, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Trade

Peter Bauer remembered

Thomas Sowell discusses Peter Bauer with Milton Friedman:

Tim Harford|
Environment, Health, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Trade

‘Africa needs freer markets’

The only way to give food security to 200 million sub-Saharan Africans is to give them the tools, not to rely on yet more aid and government mismanagement. World food production has increased with…

Pablo H.|
Environment, Health, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Trade

Good intentions are not good enough

The World Bank has recently released ‘Reaching The Poor: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why.’ The disturbing finding is that most health programs designed to reach the poorest instead help the…

Pablo H.|
Environment, Health, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Trade

Johan Norberg on Trade

Johan Norberg is on form this week:

Tim Harford|
Environment, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Trade, Water
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