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WHAT´S
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LET
THE POOR HAVE WATER, NOT IDEOLOGY - NEW PAPER
This
year’s World Water Week will see activists gather in
Stockholm
to discuss ways of getting clean water to the 1 billion people
around the world who are currently without it. But, if
water activists remain blinkered by ideology and continue to
oppose private water provision, this goal will not be met –
as explained in a new paper from the "Sustainable
Development Network", where ILE is an organization of
this international network.
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NEWS
RELEASES
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ASSOCIATION
OF JOURNALISTS OF IQUITOS GIVES A PRIZE TO ILE In
acknowledgement to the important contribution of the Free
Enterprise Institute in solving political and financial problems
in Loreto, by spreading proposals based on a liberal system model,
Iquitos Regional Council of the Peruvian Association of
Journalists honored such organization in special ceremony where
personalities from intellectual circles and distinguished
businessmen of
Iquitos
attended.[Read
more]
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 ILE
WAS AWARDED WITH INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AMONG 200 INSTITUTES OF 53
COUNTRIES.-For
defending and promoting freedom and private property, Instituto de Libre Empresa
[ILE], obtained recently the "2007 Templeton Freedom Award
Grant” which awards yearly, Atlas Economic Research Foundation,
to organizations from different parts of world compromised with
projects which promotes economic and political freedom especially
in countries where there few independent voices. A brief profile
of Jose Luis Tapia, ILE's Director here
.[Read
more]
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 ILE
DELIVERED THE MESSAGE OF FREEDOM TO MOQUEGUA, TACNA AND ILO.-Not
too long ago (Nov. 29 – Dec. 1) ILE organized a series of seminars in
the southern Peruvian cities of Moquegua, Tacna and Ilo. The main goal behind this reverse ideological pilgrimage was
to deliver a message of hope --of hope based on economic facts.[Read
more]
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 ATLAS
HONORS ILE WITH OTHER 26 INSTITUTES IN THE 2006 TEMPLETON
FREEDOM AWARD PROGRAM.-Atlas
has honored twenty-six institutes from over 150 applicants with prizes
and grants in the 2006
Templeton Freedom Awards program. The Templeton
Freedom Prizes for Excellence in Promoting Liberty celebrates
the work of nonprofit organizations dedicated to the free society. [More
info]
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POLITICS
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 CLASSICAL
LIBERALISM IS STILL KIDNAPPED, MUTILATED AND IMPOTENT.-Nowadays
all Latin American Governments are neo communist Chávez-type, or
neo liberals Bachelet-type. But neo Communism is the reaction
against "neo" liberalism which failed in the 90´s. How
then new Governments - in Peru Alan Garcia, and in Mexico Felipe
Calderon - try again a failed scheme? [Read
more]
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CHRISTIANISM
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 HOW
CHRISTIANISM CREATED CAPITALISM.-We
usually assume that capitalism started to flourish in same
time to Reinassance during eighting century. Capitalism, as Reinassance,
produced a disminishing organized religions.
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PUBLIC
AFFAIRS
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 THE
DOHA JOKE.-Does anyone remember that
at the last meeting of the World Trade Organization the trade
representatives of the participating countries made a formal commitment to
reach a final deal on cutting agricultural and industrial tariffs and
subsidies by April 30th of this year? Well, the deadline just passed and
the Doha Round of global trade talks—as the multilateral negotiations
are called—is not making any progress.
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MORAL & RULE OF
LAW
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 BUSINESS
AND ETHICS.-A
few years ago there was an immensely popular television
series, named after Dallas. The central character of this show
was a powerful and unscrupulous businessman who got that way
by climbing over the backs of rivals, manipulating
politicians, and wheeling and dealing with shadowy figures on
the fringes of the underworld. [More]
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