Last week the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF) in collaboration with IMANI: Centre for Policy and Education held a seminar in Accra, Ghana to educate economists, entrepreneurs and policy makers on the essence of developing and protecting property rights.
According to Franklin Cudjoe, Executive Director of IMANI, property rights means possessing “The right to use, control, and dispose [...]

Implemented in 2000, Zimbabwe’s “Fast Track Land Reform Programme” evicted some 4,000 white commercial farmers and their families from their lands. More than 1.3 million farm workers were subjected to 8 long years of political violence, intimidation and torture.
The Coalition for Liberal and Market Studies, a Harare-based free market policy-dialogue think tank, just launched a [...]

According to the Citizens’ Council on Health Care (CCHC), the state of Minnesota has illegally collected and claimed ownership of the DNA of 780,000 children across the state. The DNA of 42, 210 of those children has been given to genetic researchers without parental consent.
In the last legislative session, Minnesota Governor Pawlenty addressed this issue [...]

Sherlock Holmes solves the crime in The Hound of the Baskervilles because the dog of the house does not bark. Hernando de Soto has solved the problem of property in the Third World by the dogs that bark. Whether in Peru, Egypt, Indonesia, South Africa, Haiti or Central Asia, millions of people have settled on [...]

The Economic Freedom Network Asia, in collaboration with the Center for Research and Communication, Foundation for Economic Freedom, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Philippine Economic Society, and the School of Economics at the University of Asia and the Pacific, is hosting its 10th Economic Freedom Network Conference on September 18-19, 2008 at the University of Asia and [...]

After a string of unsuccessful negotiations, Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front) and Morgan Tsvangirai (Movement for Democratic Change) are once again engaged in discussions surrounding the Zimbabwean elections prior to the start of the Southern African Development Community meeting being held this weekend.
Atlas partner, Denford Madenyika of the Dzidzai Foundation says,
“the so-called negotiations [...]

A 1st prize winner of the 2004 Templeton Award in Free Market Solutions to Poverty, the Instituto de Libertad y Democracia (ILD) of Lima - Peru, seeks to expand their expertise to other regions as they have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. As part of this new collaborative [...]

The Institute of Economic Affairs‚ (UK) hosted its 17th Annual‚ Hayek Memorial Lecture on June 4, 2008. The lecture was given by Paul Johnson (best known for his well-regarded history volumes, such as Modern Times), on the topic: “Freeholds and Freedom: The Importance of Private Property in Promoting and Securing Liberty.” Click here for a [...]