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Globalisation: No less than a zero sum game for Pakistan
Written by Maria Farooq
I think that every theory and system comes with its own set of positives and negatives, so there’s always a need to balance factors to sustain the policies induced from them to gain maximum benefit. Globalisation also came to Pakistan with an equal set of positives and negatives which needed to be […]
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Reform and Backlash: What Europe Can Learn from Latin America
Written by Samuel George
In November, the backlash to externally imposed austerity once again boiled over. Labor unions executed coordinated strikes. University students took to the streets. Daily life came to a halt as citizens protested grinding reforms. The harsh economic restructuring was demanded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and backed by the […]
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Are democracies always the best providers of disaster relief?
Written by TahirImran
If we talk about the ways disasters impact on democracy and the ways democracies cope with them, we can see considerable variation from country to country, even though the impact of a disaster is always a testing case. In my view it’s not democracy but a functioning system that helps […]
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Future Day Part 2 – Hear what they say but pay more attention to what they don’t!
Written by kachwanya
This is the second post in a the three-part series of articles looking at the Future Day held recently in Nairobi and organized by Future Challenges, SID East Africa and the Rockefeller Foundation. Check out the first post here . On this article I look at the security situation in the region and […]
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Creating a Common Future: The Asian–European Young Leaders Forum: Day 3
Written by Anuja Upadhyay
The last day of the Forum on 1 November (here is a blogpost about the first day and here is a post that covers the second day) started with an air of finality in the search for solutions as various speakers discussed the effects of aspects ranging from cross-border migration […]
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Mining Propaganda provokes the People of Mongolia
Written by Otgoo Jargal
This poster by Oyu Tolgoi mining (OT) – a copper and gold mining company in Mongolia – shows the share of Rio Tinto (29%) in the form of a loaf of bread. Rio Tinto and the government of Mongolia are co-owners of the OT mining company. But in reality Rio Tinto actually has […]
