The best solution would appeal to nations' self-interest in profiting from ivory, without killing elephants.
After witnessing how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) botched East Asian recoveries following the 1997 financial crises, many developing nations "self-insured" against needing to resort to the IMF by running current account surpluses and accumulating reserves to defend their economies in the event of future crises.
This is certainly no different for our nations' self-employed who all too often see their issues left on the cutting room floor.
Differences between nations' self-rated health have been well documented.
Chidambaram Subramaniam, the political architect of the "green revolution" in India, which made the nation self-sufficient in wheat production, died Tuesday in Madras.
Although the United Nations estimated this year that two-thirds of Zimbabweans had no ready access to food -- the worst record in Africa -- Mr. Mugabe has proclaimed the nation self-sufficient.
What U.S. hospitals do in the next decade will help to delineate how America sees itself as a nation: self-serving or caring; rigid and money oriented or technologically innovative in service provision.
Zell likens it to the U.S. in the 1950s, when a large nation self-sufficient in everything from food to fuel was creating an economically powerful new middle class.
The main reason for secession, as this essay shows, was the desire to protect slavery and to create a new nation, self-consciously based on slavery and white supremacy.
They could enjoy the benefits without giving up nation self-determination, and that meant they remained sovereign.
Whether the society is a group of friends, a village, a company, a democratic nation, a communist state, or any other kind of nation, self-interest can be secondary; but it cannot be primary.
