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What are the mechanisms that can be utilized in order to accurately assess whether a country abides by the values of good governance or drifts away from them? The questions above [...]
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When Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), recently told the World Economic Forum [...]
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If you tell me that banks are institutions solely responsible for financial transactions such as lending and investing and their primary objective is the maximization [...]
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As societies in Europe become older, Central European countries and EU member states as a whole need to find out if they want, and are able to sustain, the state [...]
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Money is the root of all evil. This statement is as true today as it was some years ago. The world’s economy is suffering and Pakistan is on the high [...]
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It seems that even though I'm a grown woman experienced in living in different countries and intelligent enough to read and understand the instructions on the box, healthcare systems still [...]
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This part of the world has a long history of living in very rough social conditions. Their wealth of experience with rough conditions makes people here much more resilient in [...]
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Since the first Gold Rush 160 years ago, Australian history has been tainted by a conflict between mining and indigenous land rights. Aboriginal communities have long been [...]
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Ana Rosa, 78 years old, is a Brazilian woman, retired several years ago. She interrupted her studies when she was only 9 years old, as her school was too far from her home, [...]
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For people who want to change the world, the departure lounge of Bhutan's Paro international airport was the place to be on February 3rd this year. The simple confines of [...]
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While developing countries move towards the welfare state, European countries need to redesign their welfare model. European states have become so big they are now unwieldy. Basic safety nets have been [...]
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Whenever I hear about the so-called “welfare-state model”, I always think of Polygraf Polygraphovitch Sharikov. He is a protagonist in Mikhail Bulgakov's fantastic story The Heart of a Dog. In [...]
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Abstract: At the end of 2012, the debt of El Salvador reached $13,480.1 million, about 56.5% of the Gross Domestic Product. The Government has a limited income but a growing [...]
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Out of the 91 million people who make up the total population of Egypt, only 83 million currently live in Egypt, according to the [...]
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“America,” “affordable,” and “health care” -- three terms that just don’t seem to go together, at least for those of us in lower income brackets. A trip to the emergency [...]
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The aftermath of the civil war has left Sri Lanka recuperating, rebuilding and restructuring and while healthcare occupies a fairly prominent place on the government’s agenda, there is still everything [...]
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Known as the unofficial anthem of Australia, 'Waltzing Matilda' is a song we learn from a young age. The title gives the impression of a woman named [...]
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Global healthcare spending has increased faster than global economic growth. This faster pace of growth is due to the lack of effective economic and health policy-making but is also driven [...]
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“My mom called me in the middle of the day and said that I should come home immediately because some strangers had brought my father back after he collapsed in [...]
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Abstract: Salvadoran society doesn't have any problem with heavy drinking but is quite severe with tobacco consumption. Why is it that the country with most alcohol-related deaths worldwide [...]
