By Mihailo Gajic, TES Contributor The World Bank recently issued the new version of its regulatory index, Doing Business 2020. Central and Eastern European countries continue to show signs of good business regulation quality: Georgia (ranked 7th), Lithuania (11th) and Northern Macedonia (17th) top the list of transition economies, while Serbia is ranked […]
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Achieving Economic Security Depends on Assuring National Security
By James Edwards, Executive Director of Conservatives for Property Rights “Economic security is national security.” Different officials have made this statement over the years. Only, now the news has begun to catch up and validate the truth it expresses. Reports have proliferated, exposing various ways America’s competitors — particularly China and […]
Pot earnings disappoint, but growers and execs remain, like, unfazed
Anyone who predicted that broad legalization of cannabis for medical and recreational uses, still gathering momentum around the world, would translate into an easy payday for growers and investors, were disabused of this pleasant vision over the last year. Earnings of major growers and retailers have disappointed, sending pot stocks spiraling downward. Nonetheless […]
UK needs levee en masse to fight invasive species
The problem of invasive species has grown so pervasive in the UK that national and local authorities are no longer able to deal with the problem on their own, according to a new report by a number of MPs from across the political spectrum, summarized in the Guardian. The solution? A “citizen army” […]
Offshore wind power could meet all global electricity demand
While it may not fulfill this role in the near term, a new report from the International Energy Agency suggests that offshore wind power — referring to wind turbines built in shallow areas of the ocean, relatively close to land — could one day supply all of the world’s electricity needs. Total wind […]
Kremlins Out of the System: Russia will turn off outside Internet, turn it back on
Russia has long sought to establish a parallel, separate Internet minimizing U.S. control and influence, including Vkontakte, the Russian Facebook, and other social media copycats, as well as a separate “intranet” for the Russian military. Now the Russian government is preparing to test RuNet, an internal Internet infrastructure intended to allow the […]
Tesla fortunes turn – but will it last?
After several years in the Wall Street doghouse Tesla shareholders received a boost from an optimistic forecast from occasionally erratic boss Elon Musk, predicting a profit in the third quarter. But after a number of disappointments analysts and shareholders are understandably skeptical: will the world’s leading electric carmaker finally deliver on its disruptive […]
Winds of change for the EU and Morocco
By James Moran, CEPS After a period in the doldrums, it has been a good year so far for EU-Morocco relations. In February, the European Parliament approved amendments to the EU-Morocco association and fisheries agreements, addressing the dispute about the inclusion of Western Sahara in the scope of those accords. This helped […]
Brexit deal leaves future details wide open
By David Shiels, courtesy of Open Europe Tomorrow the House of Commons will sit for the first time on a Saturday since 1982. MPs will have the opportunity to approve or reject the revised Brexit deal, which was published by the Government and the European Commission yesterday. In a press conference on […]
Pay-for-performance didn’t help student achievement in Peru (but it could)
“Does pay-for-performance in education work at scale?” By Cristina Bellés Obrero and María Lombardi, courtesy of IZA Teacher quality is key for student achievement. Individuals exposed to better teachers perform better in school, and are more likely to attend college and earn higher salaries. However, the payment schemes in most educational systems are based on lifetime job tenure […]