The World Bank's private sector arm, the IFC, recently backed out of a dea l funding cattle ranching in Brazil after objections from the Bank's own evaluation group, which argued that the deal posed a "grave risk to the environment:" Vinod Thomas, the IEG's director-general, sums up the dilemma: "Climate change threatens to derail development, while business-as-usual development threatens to destabilise the climate." The job of the World Bank and other aid agencies is not to promote business a

We all like solutions, right? We’ve heard them talked about, seen some of them unfulfilled or seen them not live up to their potential. But all the trials and errors mean that much more when a solution works. I invite you to read Barack Obama’s remarks about the Social Innovation Fund from earlier today. The Social Innovation Fund is a proposed solution to identify the most promising, results-oriented non-profit programs and expand their reach throughout the country. The Fund has four

Sobre a vida e o legado de Arthur Seldon, vale a pena recordar também este texto de Simon Heffer publicado em 2006: The man who took on socialism – and won Seldon died last autumn, 48 years after he, Ralph Harris and Antony Fisher founded the Institute of Economic Affairs as a reaction against the socialist, welfarist climate prevailing across British politics. Seldon and Lord Harris, as the theoretical economists, then did more to ensure that Britain could be rescued from its post-war econo

Since my previous post on this subject has gotten so much interesting discussion going, I figured I’d stick with the momentum, rather than have another one of my planned multiple posts turn into a singleton because I’m like a magpie, easily distracted by shiny new subjects ;-). I should be clear about something here - part of the reason I’m bothering to critique something that I am resolutely on the side of is this - I take it seriously. I believe that at this moment, permaculture groups and

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The Washington Independent is reporting that Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) may be the House GOP's new leader for their health care reform efforts: The office of Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) sends over the news that he’ll be the ranking member on the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee. The subtext is that the party is taking the health care fight more seriously; the previous point man on the issue was Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), who doesn’t regularly speak out on the issue and i

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From Heartland Payment Systems HEARTLAND PAYMENT SYSTEMS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETES FIRST PHASE OF END-TO-END ENCRYPTION PILOT -First AES-encrypted transaction from a merchant card reader to and through a major processor network completed Princeton, NJ – June 30, 2009 – Heartland Payment Systems® (NYSE: HPY), one of the nation’s largest payments processors, yesterday successfully completed the first phase of its end-to-end encryption pilot project. This first step involved the transmiss