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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, [...]
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High unemployment, low wages, rare promotion opportunities and constantly rising living costs are pushing educated people to flee Croatia to take their chances in foreign job markets. When I was in [...]
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Tom raised some very pertinent questions about the economic crisis and how it affects developed and developing nations alike. One of my friends, Kazim Ali, currently living in Indonesia, [...]
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Our world is more democratic than ever. Proving the post-Cold War mass democratization to be a historical rather than circumstantial development, the proliferation of democratic regimes has continued to the [...]
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"Only a crisis- actual or perceived- produces real change"- Milton Friedman In September 2011, Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Centre stood at a scientific conference in Malta and announced [...]
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The current economic crisis has no doubt affected every country in one way or another. I can only speak of my own experience. As I described in my previous [...]
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Anyone can learn to ride a bicycle. But in Singapore, one big question remains: Will you dare to? The clash of attitudes between vehicle users and cyclists, coupled with the [...]
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When a fire spreads through a forest, many onlookers’ initial reaction is to lament the devastating power of the blaze. With the best of intentions, these do-gooders see the destruction [...]
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When I moved to the United States from Brazil in August of 2008, I was ready to become part of the long-famous phenomenon of brain drain. As I first stepped [...]
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I think the difference has started to emerge now in Cambodia between the way our parents think and the way I and my peers think about employment and making money. [...]
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Will 2013 bring an economic drought? U.S. National Archives via Flickr.com Once upon a time, there was wealth. If we were [...]
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One old saying well know by Peruvians is: “Peru is a beggar sitting on a golden bench". Even though its interpretation can be controversial, in some ways it [...]
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Water is indispensable to human life. As a basic need, it is highly vulnerable to exploitation and has been recognized as a human right in several international human rights treaties [...]
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2 Dec 2012 Belgrade It’s Sunday. I’ve got message on WhatsApp from Nenad. Brussels first snow, he wrote. Then we chatted a bit. Look at Brussels last [...]
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Since the very first moment I opened my eyes in this world, I remember financial crisis existing in my common surroundings. Crisis in my home country of Mexico, crisis in [...]
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The author would LOVE to thank Ligia María Orellana for her awesome drawings and her awesome self. I have a friend who’s studying abroad, in Mexico. She'll [...]
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Over the course of 2012, more than 550 rhino have been brutally and unnecessarily butchered for their horns in South Africa’s national parks, comfortably eclipsing last year’s total of 448. [...]
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Every year, the lack of employment opportunities in Central American countries pushes thousands of individuals to embark on a journey through Mexico all the way to the United States in order [...]
