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Doan suggested that international economic assistance will help strengthen Vietnam’s private sector...
...will not prevent oversupply. However, the current market is not free. Producers in poor countries do not benefit from the same government subsidies that American farmers do and are restricted from: emigrating to richer countries such as the U.S. While producers who can’t profit in one sector should be able to switch to another, coffee farmers are generally too poor to do so. (If they do switch, coca, a source of cocaine, is one of the most profitable crops to grow.) The market is already filled with numerous restrictions; most of these simply do not benefit small...
...Korea boasts a bevy of start-ups like Freechal that turn a profit by selling digital content on the Internet and mobile data networks. The nascent sector is one of the reasons Korea's economy is becoming more diverse and self-sufficient. Top-notch infrastructure is underpinning job growth: high-tech start-ups have generated more than 100,000 jobs in the past few years...
...this came last week when, as European Union officials excoriated the U.S., the French government balked at opening its household electricity market to foreign competition. French officials in Brussels cited the recent California energy crisis and the Enron scandal as evidence of the perils of opening up the sector to privatization. Strange then that the French national electricity company EDF, flush with cash from its virtual domestic monopoly, has been snapping up energy utilities in countries where the market has already been opened...
March Storm calls for increased incentives for businesses to do research and development in space and for NASA to abandon research that doesn’t require cutting-edge technology—thereby giving the private sector a chance to compete in the space market...