A friend sent along a documentary today entitled “The Third Wheel: A Documentary on Economic Freedom for the Urban Poor” that highlights the fight for free market transportation in India.
However, it’s a theme that will resonate with many around the world.
Here’s some information from the film’s organizers:
“The Third Wheel: A Documentary on Economic Freedom for [...]

While attending an event on the flat tax in Beijing yesterday, I was handed a copy of the Property Rights Alliance’s 2010 International Property Rights Index, which looks at the Legal and Political Environment, Physical Property Rights, and Intellectual Property Rights. The report is created with the help of 62 organizations from around the world, [...]

AkademiMerdeka.org is a joint web project of the Malaysia Think Tank and the Atlas Global Initiative and promotes free-markets, peace and liberty in Bahasa Melayu (spoken in Malaysia, southern Thailand, Singapore, and Brunei) and Bahasa Indonesia (spoken in Indonesia and East Timor).  On February 5-7 AkademiMerdeka.org held its Freedom Academy in Kuala Lumpur on the [...]

Just a reminder that students interested in attending The Fund for American Studies summer program in Hong Kong have only a few days left to submit their applications. For those who have forgotten:
Experience Hong Kong this summer in a unique educational environment [...]

Kim Jung-ho, the President of the Centre for Free Enterprises in Seoul, South Korea, has written a message to friends and supporters outlining CFE’s plans for 2010. Among the most exciting of these is CFE’s launch of its broadcasting wing, “Freenet News“.  The project is CFE’s attempt to bring TV viewers in South Korea [...]

It is a bittersweet time at Atlas this week, as our longtime Vice President of Institute Relations, Jo Kwong, moves on to an exciting new opportunity at Philanthropy Roundtable.
If you have met Jo, you know that she is among the most spirited and gifted defenders of the ideas of liberty.  She has spent the last two [...]

One of the world’s best and most successful documentary competitions is the Jeevika Asia Livelihood Documentary Festival, sponsored by the Centre for Civil Society in New Delhi, India. Under the leadership of Dr. Parth Shah, the competition “aims at capturing the livelihood challenges faced by the rural and urban poor and bringing it to the [...]

This week 24 university students graduated from Samriddhi Foundation’s 5 -day Arthalaya Entrepreneurship and Economics  course in Nepal.
Intellectually challenged for five days, the graduates participated in intense debates, discussions, case studies, team work and group assignments, interactive lectures with experts of related fields, field research and business module simulation in order to learn the basics [...]

I was personally handed a copy of Li Ziyang’s new book, The Power of the Market. (Sadly, the book is only available in Chinese. For now.) Li is a very sharp and very insightful writer for the Ipencil Economic Research Institute, based in Beijing. Although he studied politics at Peking University, he is a self-taught [...]

The title is tongue in cheek, but as we’ve seen in the movement of goods and capital around the globe, so too can we see the benefits of labor migration when we look closely. Dr Amitendu Palit of the Institute for South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore, has a sharp column on [...]