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Urban Growth and Poverty: The Texas Experience
Written by Samuel Chapman
Today in the United States there are more poor people living in metro areas outside big cities than within them. From New York to California and Texas where I currently live, poverty is on the rise even in metropolitan areas experiencing steady economic growth and urban development. 50 years ago […]
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Innovation in Old Drug Country
Written by Jamie Stark
San Francisco. New York. Berlin. Medellín? That’s right, add Medellín to the list of entrepreneurial hubs. The Colombian city was named 2013’s Innovative City of the Year by the Wall Street Journal magazine and Citi Bank, over any other cliché startup metropolis. Talk to any paisa, a native of Medellín, […]
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Inclusion and Happiness in Bhutan
Written by Manny Fassihi
In the span of a single generation, Bhutan has proven that its Gross National Happiness (GNH) approach to development can also lead to tangible GDP results. By managing its natural resources and unlocking its hydropower potential, the country has made impressive progress, enabling all segments of society to participate in, […]
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Remanufacturing Australia’s future
Written by Stu O'Brien
Globalisation is still a concept not fully felt by many Australians, cushioned as we are by strong domestic industries such as manufacturing and mining. Geographically disconnected from the rest of the world, we are more used to seeing the negative effects of globalisation such as skyrocketing unemployment, tumbling property markets […]
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The commercialisation of Fiji’s national drink and its impact on rural women
Written by Arnold Chanel
Rapid modernisation has caused Fiji to adopt new cultural trends that are at odds with traditional customs. Kava is a drink that is usually served at formal ceremonies such as meetings of village elders and chiefs but as a result of modernist influences, it has become a commercialized commodity rather […]
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Ukraine at the crossroads of globalization
Written by Patrick Kozakiewicz
Special thanks to my co-author, Julia Rokicka Like the traveller in Robert Frost’s famous poem The Road Not Taken, Ukraine is now poised between two roads, one pro-European Union and the other pro-Russian. Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union and its own independence, Ukrainian society has been divided, […]
