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Why wait to be hired? Start your own business!
Written by Chak Sopheap
I think the difference has started to emerge now in Cambodia between the way our parents think and the way I and my peers think about employment and making money. The older generation prefer a regular and safe job which gives them a fixed income, but this seems to have […]
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Wealth is a handsome hunk who lost his glamour overnight
Written by Andreea Vasile
Will 2013 bring an economic drought? U.S. National Archives via Flickr.com Once upon a time, there was wealth. If we were to portray it, it would be a handsome hunk with long blond hair, blue eyes, pale skin, riding carefree, roaming anywhere, spreading his beauty and joyfulness all around. Hey, wait! […]
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Time to Cry for Argentina? A Judicial Ruling’s Global Reverberations
Written by Samuel George
By ruling that Buenos Aires must repay sovereign bond holdouts, Judge Griesa may have complicated similar programs in Europe while derailing any hope of Argentina’s reentry into the global financial system. It is tough to blame Judge Thomas Griesa for throwing the book at Argentina. The enigmatic South American nation […]
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Problems of the mining industry in Peru
Written by Juan Arellano
One old saying well know by Peruvians is: “Peru is a beggar sitting on a golden bench”. Even though its interpretation can be controversial, in some ways it represents an idea that is well accepted by much of the population: that the country is poor because it does not […]
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Egypt: The Right to Water
Written by Rayna Stamboliyska
Water is indispensable to human life. As a basic need, it is highly vulnerable to exploitation and has been recognized as a human right in several international human rights treaties and declarations. Addressing the right to water in terms of sustaining life highlights how important proper policies are for securing […]
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Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
Written by Bojana Ruzic
2 Dec 2012 Belgrade It’s Sunday. I’ve got message on WhatsApp from Nenad. Brussels first snow, he wrote. Then we chatted a bit. Look at Brussels last night was written under the photo he sent me. He knows how much I love Christmas markets. Last year he sent me a […]
