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Critical Issues
The Foundation has an interest in the whole range of issues that have an effect on human development. Articles in this section are categorised under headings to make them easily accessible to visitors. The three articles shown under each heading are the most recent.

Agriculture Green acres Let them eat precaution Biotechnology: How to set African women free Click here to view more Agriculture critical issues.	Consumers We should all think more like consumers South Africa needs more demanding customers Do consumers pay more for good-looking products? Click here to view more Consumers critical issues.
Crime The new global slave trade Peaceful monkey societies rely on good policing International courts Click here to view more Crime critical issues.	Culture and Institutions Taking the plunge without tying the knot The failed states index Accounting for human achievement Click here to view more Culture and Institutions critical issues.
Economic Policy What can be done about rising food prices? One of the best ways to bolster a slowing economy Capitalism lives Click here to view more Economic Policy critical issues.	Education Don’t write off schooling vouchers The real key to development Europe’s schoolbooks demonise free enterprise Click here to view more Education critical issues.
Energy Imposing royalties on mining companies compounds an earlier injustice A lesson from France Nuclear energy – power play Click here to view more Energy critical issues.	Environment (The environmentally unfriendly consequences of environmental regulation) US cutting emissions faster than Europe Climate change and its impacts Click here to view more Environment critical issues.
Foreign Aid Tragedy of Africa Voting with their oars – mass escape from Cuba Rich claim benefits in ‘welfare nation’ Click here to view more Foreign Aid critical issues.	Globalisation In 2008, a 100 percent chance of alarm The world is richer and healthier Globalisation has resulted in a “kaleidoscope of” comparative advantage Click here to view more Globalisation critical issues.
Government Let’s hope the Polokwane revolution reverses course sharpish Government of the people, by the people, for the people Rules for nations Click here to view more Government critical issues.	Health Care The poor stand to lose from Anti-Patent Crusades Trade is good for your health, especially if you are poor Stove for the developing worlds health Click here to view more Health Care critical issues.
Health Care References Britain’s sick note culture Canadian-style 'healthcare' UK government targets “sick note culture” Click here to view more Health Care References critical issues.	Information Technology Creative capitalism The UN’s war on Internet freedom isn’t over The spam divide Click here to view more Information Technology critical issues.
Labour The role of labour unions in post-apartheid SA Millions of Americans keep working after retirement age The upward blip in US union membership Click here to view more Labour critical issues.	Law Coming up trumps Japan, the jury Key apartheid law to be repealed Click here to view more Law critical issues.
Legislation Mining royalties law ‘still being debated’ Equality, constitutionality and the rule of law France, Netherlands paving way for mercy killings Click here to view more Legislation critical issues.	Money Why is the rand falling now? Dogged devotion: Britons dig deep for pets Foreign Direct Investment in the United States Click here to view more Money critical issues.
Population New age thinking Birth rate worries in Russia Declining fertility rates are confounding demographers Click here to view more Population critical issues.	Privatisation Another ‘unforeseen’ payout to SAA? Shed Eskom's monopoly to solve the electricity crisis Private Television Raises Women's Status in India Click here to view more Privatisation critical issues.
Property Rights Property rights and economic growth India’s secret weapon How the loss of property rights caused Zimbabwe’s collapse Click here to view more Property Rights critical issues.	Regulation The Lancet pricks itself Airlines need deregulation Property rights offer a way to save the fisheries Click here to view more Regulation critical issues.
Social Policy A private alternative to social security disability The persistently poor Sweden’s pension antidote Click here to view more Social Policy critical issues.	Taxation Tax Freedom Day - 12 May this year How America beat the 70’s Commonsense tax policies Click here to view more Taxation critical issues.
Technology The strange, strange world of competition law Mobile phones are helping the third world to develop South Africa’s leap from information dirt road to super highway Click here to view more Technology critical issues.	Terrorism Out with old, in with a new NATO Freedom of security Shuttering camera surveillance Click here to view more Terrorism critical issues.
Trade The US’ triple deficits The truth about free trade U.S. Democrats and trade Click here to view more Trade critical issues.	Transportation Another ‘unforeseen’ payout to SAA? Bringing SAA to market? The unintended consequences of taxi recapitalisation Click here to view more Transportation critical issues.
Welfare Weaning Swedes off welfare Let them eat laptops Japan’s wrenching choices Click here to view more Welfare critical issues.


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