This article originally appeared on Resilient MENA by Ana Rovzar The socioeconomic integration of immigrants and refugees in Europe’s host communities is a persistent but growing problem. Although migration to Europe is by no means a new phenomenon, the unprecedented … Continue reading Career mentoring for social impact
By Victoria Collins It’s not about how accurate or inaccurate the film is, it’s about how people feel they’re being squeezed, cheated and dehumanized by a system that’s supposed to support them. Ken Loach’s latest work, heralded as one of … Continue reading I, Daniel Blake – squeezed, cheated and dehumanized by benefits? #FilmReview
By Pete Darvas and Kabira Namit * Originally posted on the World Bank blog “Education for Global Development” In March 2014, Liberia announced that there were two suspected cases of Ebola in Lofa and Nimba counties. Six months later, Ebola … Continue reading School enrolment in Liberia higher than before the Ebola epidemic
By Rachel de Sá Brazil. The land where women are beautiful, food is delicious, everyone knows how to dance “samba”, play football, and of course, the future is bright and the time to shine is just around the corner. Right? … Continue reading Brazil In Crisis – How Did We Get To This Mess And What Should We Do To Leave?
By Carlos Valdivia Peru has elected a new leader. Liberal Pedro Pablo Kuczynski – better known as “PPK” – won the runoff election against populist Keiko Sofia Fujimori. The results were announced on the 9th of June, four days after the … Continue reading Kuczynski’s Challenge To Build Dialogue As Peru’s New President
By Kabira Namit INTRODUCTION In 1787, Edward Gibbon completed ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ wherein among several other reasons, he attributed “higher taxation and spending of public monies for free bread and circuses for the populace” as one … Continue reading What Have the Romans Ever Done For Us? A Brief Examination of the Roman Welfare State
By Kabira Namit 1. INTRODUCTION We need credible data to design evidence-based policies, measure national progress and compare development strategies across nations. However, government officials and donor partners agree that the current sets of development statistics being published by national statistics … Continue reading The Fallibility of Development Statistics
By Sudhanshu Roy Sudhanshu Roy is an international lawyer based in New York. His interests include history, politics and musing about writing a perfect movie which incorporates his two main interests. On 26 January 2015, even as President Obama became … Continue reading “Minus the Shooting”: World Trade Organisation and the Path to Legalisation
By Rachel de Sá Note: Originally posted on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) of The UK’s internal blog “Economics matter”. Brazil’s downgrade “Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and a lifetime to recover” so the saying goes. This was … Continue reading Brazil’s Downgrade
By Takumi Kunitake Trade: solution or problem? In December 2015, World Trade Organization (WTO) attracted attentions again. Though WTO had been seen getting less influential due to emergence of many regional trade treaties, it declared a “historic” agreement … Continue reading Food or agriculture
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