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Why Pay Attention To Iowa? Small State, With A Small Number of Mostly Elderly GOP Caucus Goers – It Is All About The Assumed Magic Of Momentum

By Paolo von Schirach December 29, 2011 WASHINGTON – The Iowa caucus is finally about to take place on...

The Economic Importance Of American Natural Gas – Huge Benefits Include Lower Electricity Costs and A Boost For The Plastics And Chemical Industries That Use Gas As A Key Ingredient

By Paolo von Schirach December 28, 2011 WASHINGTON – A recent The Wall Street Journal story reported that newly...

Africa Is Slowly Changing – Tribal Kings In Zambia May Have to Go But "Mwami" will be missed

WASHINGTON – He was just another participant in the Livingstone Workshop aimed at discussing foreign investment issues with many...

Massive Anti-Government Moscow Rally – Intense Public Anger – Gorbachev Advises Putin To Retire From Politics

WASHINGTON – The IHT reports that Aleksey Navalny, a blogger who is a recognized leader of the protest movement...

Development Work Is About Economic Growth Not About “Poverty Alleviation” – Part 2

WASHINGTON – International development practitioners focus more on ways in which they can eliminate or alleviate poverty, the visible...

With US Forces Gone, Iraq Falls Into Chaos: Bombings and Sectarian Divisions – A Poorly Planned, Costly Occupation And So Little To Show For It

By Paolo von Schirach December 22, 2011 WASHINGTON – “America is the sorcerer apprentice that got it truly wrong...

Italy’s Debt Is Also About Patronage, Wasted Funds, Corruption And Low Ethical Standards – 952 National Italian Law Makers Collect Huge Salaries, Do Little – Can Monti Reform This?

By Paolo von Schirach December 20, 2011 WASHINGTON – Italy’s fiscal and debt crisis is not just about bad...

India Will Not Liberalise Retailing – Country Will Keep Ancient Food Distribution System – Failure To Carry Out This and Other Needed Reforms May Doom Growth

By Paolo von Schirach Related piece: https://schirachreport.com/index.php/2011/12/03/not-so-modern-india-country-choked-by-political-gridlock-corruption-and-vast-inefficiencies-very-low-132-world-bank-doing-business-score-opposition-to-recent-decision-to-let-in-internatio/ December 19, 2011 WASHINGTON – In a previous piece, (see link above),...