May 1, 2013
Higher state pension ages are not only possible (given longer life expectancy) and desirable (given the fiscal costs of state pensions) but later retirement should, in fact, lead to better average health in retirement.
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May 1, 2013
Denmark’s fat tax remains the leading example of an ambitious anti-obesity policy being tested in the real world. The results failed to match the predictions of computer models and the failed experiment has since been largely swept under the carpet in public health circles.
April 1, 2013
By 2050 the world will need to produce almost twice as much food and feed in the same agricultural area as today. Modern genetic engineering – with crops that use water, nutrients, energy, and land more efficiently – is one of the keys.
March 1, 2013
With public confidence in the European project waning, the idea of initiating a ‘civil dialogue’ with the public emerged in the mid-1990s as a way of bolstering the EU’s democratic legitimacy. Citizens have been ventriloquised through ‘sock puppet’ charities, think tanks and other ‘civil society’ groups which have been hand-picked and financed by the European Commission (EC).
January 1, 2013
The decision by the American antitrust regulator to acquit Google from charges of manipulating its search engine for anti-competitive purposes provides useful input for European regulators.
November 1, 2012
We need an entirely new approach to regulation across the financial sector which is based on transparency, market discipline and simple and stable legal frameworks.
November 1, 2012
Non-tariff barriers are an important impediment to trade for less developed countries. They need to be brought to the forefront of the trade debate if developing countries are to move into the export of higher value added products.
October 1, 2012
The break-up of the Telecom Italia network, while positive from a market competition perspective, could yet reveal itself as a tool for the former monopolist to determine the manner and time-frame in which it should take place.
November 1, 2010
This important study, whilst not doubting the position that Fair Trade is part and parcel of a market economy, does question the claims made by the Fair Trade movement.