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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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Sometimes the relationship between the state and its citizens can be very complicated. But it's even more so when it's not clear who should be a [...]
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Abstract: the causes of unemployment in Central America are in part related to low education and high levels of poverty. These factors form vicious cycles that are hard to break: [...]
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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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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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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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Hot. Stuffy. Noisy. White man dressed in checkered shirt and jeans. Oh and there’s another one. And another one. Some carrying brief cases and laptop bags. Some burying [...]
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At the end of 2010 both the Washington Post and the Economist created a new buzz word for describing the political situation in Hungary: “Putinization”. So how can Russia [...]
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“I was just twelve years when I came from Uttar Pradesh (a northern state of India) as a migrant worker with the help of a relative,” says Ram Charan Yadav [...]
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Sixty-five percent of Africa’s population is under the age of 24, with over 40 percent of the total population below the age of 16, and about 25 percent between the [...]
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Unplanned is well planned, and planned is not planned at all. At least that’s how things work in this part of the world. In history lessons we've seen countless occasions [...]
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Last year, in Thimphu the capital of Bhutan, there was a pedestrian route that led from the center of the city's busy main street Norzin Lam up to the Chorten [...]
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Abstract: The rainy season in Haiti will begin in April and it can mean an intensification of the cholera epidemic which has already claimed 7,000 deaths among 520,000 cases. A [...]
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Abstract: If I had to describe the way Colombians deal with unemployment with one word, it would be creativity. Labor [...]
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To give the country credit, Pakistan is one of the few countries in the world not to obey Okun’s Law which posits a ~2 percent decrease in GDP for every [...]
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Old and New Europe opened their borders to each other through a formal political and economic partnership meant to deliver peace, stability and prosperity, a partnership to help raise living [...]
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Growing nations need industry, and industry needs employees. To give industry the employees it needs to make the nation grow, citizens must be trained to fulfill these positions. In [...]
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Abstract: In El Salvador, there aren’t many options for students after they finish their high school or university studies. Unemployment or underemployment is quite common, [...]
