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The 5 W’s of Nigeria’s Unemployment Rate: Act 2
Written by Chioma Agwuegbo
Growing up, my father taught me that stating a problem over and over doesn’t turn it into a solution. Ditto for avoiding that problem or pretending it doesn’t exist. The only way to solve a problem is to ‘solve it’. After I did the ‘5 W’s Of Nigeria’s Unemployment Rate: Act […]
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Top Ten Posts on Future Challenges in 2012
Written by Mario Wiedemann
The Future Challenges team would like to start the New Year by looking back at 2012. Our blogger network – which consists of more than 160 bloggers from 65 countries – published more than 500 blogposts this year. These blogposts provided countless perspectives on issues of globalization like youth unemployment, […]
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India’s Great Hope is its Culture of Innovation
Written by Ajinkya
No government nor any Corporates will lead India to prosperity. It will be the innovative streak of ‘aam aadmi’ (common man) of India that will create businesses and prosperity.
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Nepali migrant workers – Life gets even harder
Written by Anuja Upadhyay
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 travel to India when a simple ID card was all that was needed. Little did I realize at the time that […]
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The Spanish Crisis: the Ecuadorians who stay and those who don’t
Written by EduardoVarasC
Memory is selective, but firm in many ways. The image comes from television: families weeping in the doorways of international lounges because a son, daughter, mother, father or husband and wife had to leave and find a real income in Europe, mainly in Spain and Italy. The relatives wouldn’t see […]
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Esclavos urbanos en Brasil
Written by Lucia Querejazu
Abstract: Most bolivian migrants in Sao Paulo working in sweatshops don’t know that there are binational agreements that make working legally in Brazil quite easy. However, this information is not out there where unemployed and desperate people contact the recruiters that prepare the transportation of workers all the way to […]
