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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 [...]
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Boko Haram, an Islamic extremist group sometimes called the “Nigerian Taliban”, has carried out increasingly sophisticated attacks since its founding in 2002. Targeting government organisations, churches, schools and mosques belonging [...]
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I would like to have written about the consequences of the global intergenerational competition. However, this dilemma does not apply (yet) in Moldova which has only a small number of [...]
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Alan Greenspan is responsible for the 30% pay cut I had to take with my first job in 2009. Well, there are many dots that need connecting between Mr. [...]
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Globalization has great benefits and great side effects. When the global economy is doing well, a lot of people try moving to the developed world for a better life while [...]
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With swelling youth unemployment in the EU, young people in Central European youth are facing some difficult, yet not so obvious, choices. In an unequal world, where competition for jobs [...]
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As Europe struggles on with the effects of the economic crisis, the debate on the upcoming EU budget is raising renewed concerns about solidarity. With calls for cuts [...]
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Abstract: Since Canada-based Pacific Rim Mining Corp. and other mining companies have tried to get authorizations to extract gold from El Salvador’s underground, there have been division among local people, [...]
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In early 2008 preceding the American economic crisis, former Mexican Treasury Secretary Agustín Carstens stated that the effects of such a recession on the Mexican economy would be “a simple [...]
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Migrant workers' remittances across the world are receiving special attention due to the increase in movement of people resulting from globalization. The money sent home [...]
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Being young often means being unemployed or working in the wrong job. More and more young people cannot find suitable work after leaving university. I've read a lot about youth unemployment in [...]
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Abstract: The concept of modern development is frequently linked to the destruction of nature. The actual government of Colombia is strongly betting for mining exploitation, as a means to reach development. [...]
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I remember the day I passed my final exam at university. It was one of the happiest days of my life as it meant that I was no longer a [...]
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A young woman struggles through university, enduring a few strikes, disreputable advances from cultists, depraved lecturers and other similar low-life [...]
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Finland’s education system, which has emerged from a radical overhaul initiated over 40 years ago, is a source of fascination for many countries. Although Singapore students match the [...]
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The Arab Spring uprisings have triggered notable shifts throughout republican Arab states. The story in the Gulf monarchies, however, is starkly different. The Gulf Monarchies are, for the most part, autocratic, [...]
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“By the way, has Madonna given back the children she stole from Africa? Or did she end up buying them?” asked Marine Le Pen, after the singer imposed a swastika [...]
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Abstract: In spite of the enormous commercial benefits brought by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), millions of Mexican farmers have been forced to withdraw from the market as an [...]
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The youth unemployment situation in Spain is disturbing: more than 50% of young people (between 18 and 30 years old) are unemployed. This has caused a strong immigration wave of Spanish [...]
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On January 18, 2006, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced a new foreign policy called transformational diplomacy. Challenging old assumptions that the domestic character of other countries did not matter [...]
