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...full three-day course of treatment with artemisinin-based combination therapy costs from $1 to $10 a person, depending on whether it is purchased in the public or private sector. Unfortunately, that's at least 10 times the price of current, albeit ineffective, treatment programs. Most impoverished African governments simply cannot afford to foot the entire bill for combination therapy and the training required to give it, and the same holds true for the majority of their private citizens, many of whom already spend a third of their income on malaria treatment...
...Ralph Nader is counting on votes from all over the country from every sector,” Richardson said. “Harvard students are well educated and they should offer a good measure of support...
...plenty of juice from nuclear power plants, has suffered a series of intentional blackouts caused by workers at Electricité de France protesting partial privatization of the state-owned utility. The blackouts seem to have had an effect, as privatization has been postponed. Why is Europe's electricity sector so inadequate? There are crises up and down the system: high prices, inadequate supply, creaking infrastructure. The European Commission began liberalizing the electricity market with a directive in 1996, though countries adopted rules at their own pace. The deadline was July 1 for industrial users - although most E.U. nations missed...
...says the change allowed the government to cut spending by about 11% without most people noticing - except within ministries and agencies. He adds: "All of Europe is now taking steps in this direction." In Canada the government fixes its initial budget number according to economic growth estimates by private-sector forecasters. In Finland, under a freedom of information act, the internal budget submissions from departments to the Finance Ministry are public. The fear of being publicly shamed is a powerful incentive not to put in exaggerated demands. "We're pretty satisfied how the money is spent," says Teemu Lehtinen...
...When corporate income tax is 16% in Hungary [and] 19% in Slovakia ... then Austria had to do something," said Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser. The country's Socialists and Greens have criticized the decision for burdening pensioners and favoring corporations over small businesses, but the private sector cheered - and inquiries from foreign companies about setting up in Austria skyrocketed. Perhaps that's what has Schröder so worried. Suzanne Rosselet of the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook suggests that calls for tax harmonization have the problem backwards. "It's a fog behind which they are trying to hide the true...