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In one of my previous articles, I presented the lives of street vendors in the cities of Karachi and Hyderabad, Pakistan. The pictures gave a graphic description of the conditions in which lower class uneducated Pakistanis work, and what they think about unemployment and job conditions can easily be imagined. […]

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 procedures that have been standardized. A process as natural as birth has become a totally unnatural event and manipulated, but […]

What are the mechanisms that can be utilized in order to accurately assess whether a country abides by the values of good governance or drifts away from them? The questions above got me thinking all weekend which lead me to share ideas on the topic: Improving good governance in Africa, […]

When Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), recently told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that climate change not debt or austerity is “the greatest economic challenge of the 21st Century“, I quickly thought of my country, Uganda. I had a conversation about Uganda’s economic […]

  What are “Future Days”? They’re opportunities for us to meet one another, get out of our daily routine, and tackle some of the most challenging issues that face our regions. They are reality checks: Are our debates and conversations on the right track? When we talk about how to […]

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 of profit, well, you are almost completely right. But what if I told you that some banks were created for completely different reasons, more “human” […]