Archive for December, 2010
Combating child slavery
December 3rd, 2010 by Roger Darlington
The numbers around child slavery and exploitation are simply staggering and there aren’t enough people fighting back. More than 150 million children younger than 14 years-old are child labourers – one in six children in the world. Those children do hazardous work in mines or on farms, often handling chemicals and pesticides or working near […]
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Salman Khan and his 1800 lessons
December 2nd, 2010 by Roger Darlington
A friend of mind – whose daughter recently left school to go to university – has drawn (pun intended) my attention to this great web site where the American educator Salman Khan has made available some 1800 bite-sized lessons. I’ve been reading a lot about evolution recently and have just viewed the lesson on the […]
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How should we tax income?
December 1st, 2010 by Roger Darlington
Earlier this week, I had a lively economic debate over dinner with two young Right-wing friends. They are both broadly supportive of the Laffer curve which suggests that, above a certain percentage rate, tax on income produces a lower yield and they believe that in many Western economies we are already beyond that rate so […]
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