Gates calls for a new form of capitalism

clipped from online.wsj.com In a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the software tycoon plans to call for a “creative capitalism” that uses market forces to address poor-country needs that he feels are being ignored. In particular, he said, he’s troubled that advances in technology, health care and education tend to help the rich and bypass the poor. “The rate of improvement for the third that is better off is pretty rapid,” he said. “The part that’s unsatisfactory is for the bottom third — two billion of six billion.” But Mr. Gates’s argument for the potential profitability of serving the poor is certain to raise skepticism. “There’s a lot of people at the bottom of the pyramid but the size of the transactions is so small it is not worth it for private business most of the time,” says William Easterly, a New York University professor and former World Bank economist. Belief in Technology

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Samak Sundaravej as Thailand’s prime minister

Despite his victory, there is already talk that Mr. Samak could soon be replaced by someone more conciliatory. The Thai news media have been speculating daily about who may emerge as a compromise candidate for prime minister.

“I think the Thaksin group will try to find a way to get rid of him over the next few months,” said Jon Ungpakorn, a former senator and democracy advocate, referring to Mr. Samak. “He was an asset in the election. He will be a liability as prime minister.”

clipped from www.nytimes.com Newly elected Prime Minster Samak Sundaravej arrived at Parliament House in Bangkok on Monday. An outspoken political veteran who is prone to profanity, Mr. Samak is disliked by the Thai press and intelligentsia and is deeply resented by civil rights groups for his support of deadly crackdowns on peaceful protesters in the 1970s and 1990s. He has described himself as a proxy of Thaksin Shinawatra, the prime minister who was ousted in a September 2006 coup. As the leader of the People Power Party, which won a plurality of votes in elections on Dec. 23, Mr. Samak will lead a coalition of parties that together control about 65 percent of the seats in the House of Representatives. In the vote for prime minister in Parliament on Monday, Mr. Samak beat the candidate from the rival Democrat Party, Abhisit Vejjajiva, 310 to 163.