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Contrary to the common assumption that this is due to intentional tax evasion, the poor remain outside the legal sector because complex laws exclude them. In 1990, the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (de Soto’s think tank) helped Peru reduce time and money costs by 99 percent. Since then, over two million Peruvian families have become newly legal homeowners and another 500,000 have registered official businesses...
...drug that would block the linkage and cure a cold before it got started. Or so the thinking went. Unfortunately, the logistics, from both a biological and a business point of view, turned out to be a lot more complicated than anyone expected. The crash of the biotech sector, in which some of the more interesting anticold research has taken place, certainly didn't help...
...intellectual snobbery," says Colin Tweedy, chief executive of Arts & Business, a London-based body that develops partnerships between business and the arts. To him, corporate ideology brings the arts two blessings. The first: financial accountability, which he sees as a road to longevity. The second? "The private sector is far less onerous in its stipulations," he insists, dismissing the idea that corporate sponsors seek to influence the creative direction of the artists or galleries they sponsor. Can the marriage of art and business succeed? To find out, TIME looked at three countries on the frontier where artistic vision meets financial...
...received] a letter that gave us the names of persons who had taken part in the destruction of biological weapons in the summer of 1991. These are people who are still alive and who [could be] interviewed about it. Since then we have had further names from the missile sector and from the chemical. I'm not rushing to conclusions that this is going to give results. They could be scripted. They could all tell us the same story...
...they're kiboshing the waste, inefficiency and indifference of Brazil's social-welfare programs, converting them from political patronage rackets to engines of economic growth. Zero Hunger, says Graziano, "is meant most to raise the productive capacity of poor Brazilians." It includes churches, NGOs and, significantly, the private sector: Nestlé of Brazil, for example, will donate 1 million kg of food and 248 small homes to the program this year. Graziano concedes that Lula will stand or fall on this issue when he faces re-election in 2006; but he declined to pinpoint a gauge for success. Still, says...