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BRICS Reports: Faster Than The Censors
Written by dandanwang
This article is part of a cooperation between Future Challenges and the Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI). SGI’s new study “Change Ahead? Sustainable Governance in the BRICS” examines policy making in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. We’ve asked five of our bloggers to tell us what they think about the reports. In China, social […]
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La carísima paz
Written by Mariana Belloso
You can live in relative peace in El Salvador, if you have the resources to afford it. There’s a direct relation between how poor people are, and how vulnerable they are in front of the country’s violence and insecurity.
A minority, the same portion of the population with de higher income, can buy “peace”, in the form of private security services, bodyguards, armored vehicles or extra secured houses.
But the rest, the people with lower income, have to deal with robbery, violations, extortions, and other types of violence.
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Russia: nomads fight for the Arctic
Written by Masha Egupova
Russia is cursed with its resources: the oil and gas industry is growing so fast that 50% of the federal budget and three quarters of exports depend on its production. It seems that the country does not produce anything, but just relies on its natural resources. At the same time […]
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Pakistan Hockey – Green Gold turned to Lead.
Written by Muhammad Bilal Khalid
The whole nation used to wait for the broadcast and support the Pakistan team, cheering them on on the radio, and waiting for them to sweep the hockey ground at a far away international tournament. Those were the glory days for the green shirts of the Pakistan hockey team when […]
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Slovenian Politics Misuse the Second World War Conflict
Written by MartinaKadunc
If in America the political battle is waged on the premise of economic policy, with low taxes and free markets on the one side and regulation and progressive taxation on the other, in Slovenia the battle is fought over ideological views of events that happened during and after the Second […]
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Future Scenarios for Hanoi in 2035
Written by AsianTrendsMonitoring
Researchers from the Asian Trends Monitoring (ATM) team took a look at alternative futures in Hanoi and developed four very different scenarios for how the city’s entrepreneurs would do in the year 2035. The Vietnamese capital is undergoing several drastic changes. The city’s look and feel are changing, and the […]
