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Chile, the Copper Grail of the World
Written by Blanca Vera
Can an economic model to support future generations of Chileans be based on a nonrenewable natural resource? Or will it become yet another example of the resource curse? For the last 150 years copper has been the backbone of the Chilean economy. Chile has been able to defeat underdevelopment and […]
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Syrian Opposition, Buoyed By UN Vote, Charts New Future
Written by Kristin Deasy
Opposition parties that effectively ousted decades-old regimes are now battling their way toward self-governance. Despite throwback by Assad’s regime, Syrian opposition parties are also thinking ahead. Ausama Monajed, senior advisor to the Secretary General of The Syrian National Council (SNC), Syria’s main opposition party, described a plan of action the […]
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Can an austerity program rescue the eurozone from the crisis?
Written by Tom Fries
This is a guest post by Thiess Petersen, who also works with the future challenges team in Gütersloh. In his last post, Thiess analyzed the economic roots of the current financial crisis in eurozone. In this post he is asking whether European governments can solve this crisis by reducing their […]
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ICT and Education in India
Written by Anuja Upadhyay
No doubt the issue raised by Maria Farooq in Defending the Global Village is very pertinent to India. The chronology of events over the last fourteen years shows it clearly- ICT has been used as a tool for numerous terrorist attacks. But I couldn’t agree more that despite the fact that […]
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Asia’s response to climate change and natural disasters
Written by Mario Wiedemann
Experts from the Center for Strategic and International Studies discuss their findings on the politics of climate change in Asia, the region’s response to natural disasters, and implications for the future geometry of Asia’s institutions and US policy in the region.
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Riqueza debajo de la tierra, pobreza por encima
Written by Lucia Querejazu
Abstract: Is our mineral richness a curse? We have not been able to convert this wealth into economic and social growth and problems keep popping up all over the country, no matter the government, the laws or the companies working there. Bolivia’s mining history is not very […]
