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The European Union already has some trade agreements and is currently having talks about others with some of the key regional and global economies. The US is the EU’s [...]
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The Transatlantic Free-Trade Agreement (TAFTA) has a lot of American supporters as the USA expects to get the maximum profit from this deal. Former NATO secretary-general Javier Solana, [...]
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In today’s economy, it is vital that young people learn to fish for themselves rather than wait to be handed fish by their guardians or society. Yet it is even [...]
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I have been mulling over how to frame my thoughts about the 'relationship trouble' between the people and the institutions that govern them. On FutureChallenges, Corina Murafa phrased [...]
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Media craves news that attracts huge audiences and breaking news seems to be an indispensible part of every news channel. Reports having to do with women are always attention-grabbing, whether [...]
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Look at the timeline of events in the Arab Spring and you will see that women have played a huge role in its development. Yet the contribution women make to [...]
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In a country like Papua New Guinea (PNG), you don’t expect much from the government. If you do, you will be disappointed. You see, there is a problem when colonisation and Western [...]
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Abstract: For medicine, pregnancy is considered a disease and childbirth is part of a surgical protocol. The "clinicalization" of labor involves the intervention of a number of violent and invasive [...]
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When Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), recently told the World Economic Forum [...]
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If you tell me that banks are institutions solely responsible for financial transactions such as lending and investing and their primary objective is the maximization [...]
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Known as the unofficial anthem of Australia, 'Waltzing Matilda' is a song we learn from a young age. The title gives the impression of a woman named [...]
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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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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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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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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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What do bugs have to do with your food? Many of us do not think of that beyond the moment when we select and wash our fresh produce. What if I [...]
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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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In the developed world, communication has been easier as everyone in one way or another has a telephone line even before the coming of mobile [...]
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I attended the 7th annual Internet Governance Forum sponsored by the United Nations in Azerbaijan: a country notorious for [...]
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It's been well over three months since Muslim Brotherhood Freedom and Justice Party ex-leader Mohammed Morsi was sworn in as Egypt's first democratically elected, post-revolutionary, non-military president and yet it [...]
