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Moving from the Caribbean to Europe was an interesting experience for me. One thing that really astonished me was how integrated EU countries were. I hadn’t realized (prior to moving [...]
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In the conservative Muslim culture of Mali, women fulfill their traditional gender roles of raising children, tending the [...]
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It can be difficult to gauge the balance between making university places accessible but also maintaining their value – here’s how Singapore does it University degrees are a strange commodity. They [...]
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A citizen and his State. This relationship is at the forefront of discussion as the welfare state tests its limits and migration patterns become increasingly metropolitan. Thanks in particular to [...]
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The Nile: There Won’t Be Enough for Everybody Is the post-revolution change in Egyptian leadership bringing about a shift in foreign policy towards the nations of the Nile Basin? The Nile River [...]
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In the middle of March in Brussels about 40 representatives of civil society from European Union candidate countries (South-East Europe, Turkey and Iceland) attended the European Commission study tour “Direct [...]
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The crisis in Europe is starting to cause the demolition of the so-called "Welfare State" in many countries while others are struggling to hold it together. At the same time, [...]
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There is one remarkable thing about Icelandic doctors: they actually work in Iceland. Despite lower salaries and longer hours that they could expect in many other countries, they usually return [...]
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Governance isn't the only thing that is being taken into the hands of civil society. In Australia, the entire premise of the market system is also being reworked. [...]
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The United States has a cultural problem. Europe has it too. It is the welfare state—the overextended, debt-funded morass of entitlements. “But why,” some will ask, “is it a cultural [...]
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Sixty nine years since independence and India is still battling a parasite called corruption. When the people of India voted for democracy, little did they know [...]
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“There are men who fight one day and they are good, men who fight one year and they are better, men who fight many years and they are [...]
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It was pretty delightful, the time we spent together was indescribable. Mr Welfare had really committed, promised me that he was there to support me describing himself as [...]
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In light of the Great Land Rush, that the Lead Article alludes to, smaller stories are often overshadowed. The narrative often includes players such as multinational corporations, governments, local [...]
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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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Abstract: While the delapidated economies of the so called "first world" strongly beat the European and North American youth, Brazil, by means of an historical inversion, moves forward with safe steps [...]
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Researchers from the Asian Trends Monitoring (ATM) team took a look at alternative futures in Hanoi and developed four very different scenarios for how the city’s entrepreneurs would [...]
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The lives and practices of professional female fighters in the Andes “Bizarre”, “ridiculous”, even “shameful”: these are words that Bolivians repeatedly associate with these women. Yet the lucha libre – [...]
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The notion that economic growth is inherently beneficial for society is deeply entrenched dogma in the United States. The primary (indeed, almost sole) metrics of our nation's health and success [...]
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Democracy is "the concept of the modern world" but over the years it has been used in different contexts and bent to the will and [...]
