Botswana’s Elephant Problem – Just How Do You Make Wild Elephants Valuable?
Things that human beings find valuable tend to increase in number, things that humans find valueless tend to decrease. Things that humans find costly...
Tanzania’s Idiot Micromanagement Of The Economy – Sugar Imports Edition
There are indeed legitimate functions for the government to perform in a modern economy. There are even ones useful enough in one still not...
How Addis Ababa Should Profit From The New River Development Project
Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia, is committing to cleaning up two of the riversides that flow through the city. That might be good, that might...
Bernie Sanders Won’t Win In 2020 – Dems Won’t Let Him
There's a claim that Bernie Sanders can win the Presidential election in 2020. This seems most unlikely to me as I can't see any...
India Should Preserve Forest Animals Or Forest Peoples?
It's easy enough to just confirm priors here over whether India should be preserving forest dwelling peoples or forest dwelling animals. Unfortunately, such knee...
But Why Would Canada Pay $1 Trillion For Montana?
There's a fun little petition over at Change.org - why not sell Montana to Canada to pay down the national debt? The observant will...
Mozambique’s Tuna Bonds Are Coming Home To Roost
One of the most outrageous, barefaced even, bits of stealing from the public purse was the story of Mozambique and the Tuna Bonds. The...
Indonesia’s Palm Oil Plans – What A Difficulty for Greenpeace, FOE
This is going to be just a delightful little conundrum for the fools over at Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace. For two of...
Pakistan’s Sewage Works Show How Far We’ve Still Got To Go With Polio
Here in the rich countries we hardly even think of polio these days. Back when oldsters like me were young it was still a...
Dantata Success and Profitable Company – Yes, This Is A Ponzi Scheme In Nigeria
Whether something's a good or a bad investment is one thing but whether something's a ponzi scheme - as we'd suggest Dantata Success and...