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Initially, the thought of large-scale mining in Australia saddens me, imagining the inevitable scar it will leave on the landscape. Although I am not an indigenous Australian, I can imagine [...]
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Immigration is largely looked at through an economic prism. But, that’s not all there is to it. In a country like Egypt, where [...]
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In 2012, Uganda suffered two major hemorrhagic fever outbreaks. First the dread Ebola hemorrhagic fever hit the remote district of Kibaale in [...]
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Growing up, my father taught me that stating a problem over and over doesn't turn it into a solution. Ditto for avoiding that problem or pretending it doesn't exist. The [...]
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Apparently, India has 75 million unemployed young people. To put this in perspective, this figure is equal to the whole population of Iran. Yes, the Indian economy is growing rapidly [...]
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I was slightly flustered when returning from Kathmandu to New Delhi this November, I was questioned by Nepal Police at Tribhuvan International Airport for carrying my Nepali passport just to [...]
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Memory is selective, but firm in many ways. The image comes from television: families weeping in the doorways of international lounges because a son, daughter, mother, father or husband and [...]
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Abstract: Most bolivian migrants in Sao Paulo working in sweatshops don't know that there are binational agreements that make working legally in Brazil quite easy. However, this information is not [...]
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Abstract: To see globalization only taking into account its economic dimension is simplistic and reductionist. If there is something to be held accountable for exploitation and inequality is [...]
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They're probably gambling with death and disaster, but the families who live in the danger zones of Metro Manila would rather not leave their homes. The reasons are mainly economic - [...]
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“People need hope, people need loving People need trust from a fellow man People need love to make a good living People need faith in a helping hand…” So sang Abba [...]
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These dead are supremely uninterested in the living: in those who took their lives; in witnesses—or in us. Why should they seek our gaze? What would they have to say [...]
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Is entrepreneurship an answer to current job losses and economic difficulties? For those who always wanted to go “their own way” there’s no better time than now to become an [...]
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One of the first effects of the crisis on Slovakia - one of the most open, export dependent economies in Europe - was felt when the country's rich customers started [...]
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Dear Young European Un-Employees, You belong to generation “Crisis,” and youth unemployment is one of its manifestations which must affect you in one way or the other. Job stability is so [...]
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The tremors of the world’s economic crisis are never fully resonated in Australia, a country with an advantageous tectonic and fiscal position. While us folk down under [...]
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Although Kenyans in Diaspora have been ruled out from voting in Kenya’s general elections in March 2013 due to “time and resource constraints,” they [...]
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Abstract: The crisis has not spread, it has not been infected. Rather, it has been revealed in one country and another. It is not contagious as such, as happened in its [...]
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When the financial crisis hit the Western world, a saying spread throughout Macedonia: ‘We can’t be hit by the crisis, we're always in crisis’ This was very true at the time. [...]
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Growing up in Central and South America, we were raised on tales of the "American Dream": how an immigrant could go to the USA and before long have a house, [...]
