Dear Colleagues,
Allen L. Hammond posted to the GKD-DOTCOM focused discussion about the
upcoming WRI sponsored "Eradicating Poverty Through Profits" Conference
in California. I did not go, (budget decision) but I have not seen that
much dialog after the conference. I would imagine there was a lot
On 12/22/04, Sam Lanfranco wrote:
> Many of these take place in areas where markets fail to work properly,
> in any event.
And where on this planet exactly do markets work 'properly', without
hedging them with consumer-protecting regulatory provisions?
--
Vickram
***GKD is solel
On 12/20/04, Darrell Owen wrote:
> ...doing without subsidies would be better than with them if the local
> economics make this possible. In many locations it simply doesn't...
Dear Colleagues,
Happy Holidays!
I was going to stay out of this particular thread because it is the
holidays here i
I think there are subsidies, and then there are 'subsidies'. There is no
way we can, as yet, sustain our monthly bandwidth subscription cost of
$1,800 without recourse to a subsidy from our own micro-finance service.
We have other pressing demands for this colossal (by our standards)
subscription f
Continuing the discussion initiated by Cornelio Hopmann re: subsidizing
the Internet, I want to add the following:
In responding to my observations to Cornelio's original posting, my
primary orientation was that examining the issue of infrastructure
subsidies (in favor or against) by purely lookin
