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Get Out of the Local Box
Written by Ilina Mangova
‘I just sold organic honey from Brazil to Israel and now I’m working on selling wine from Spain to Ukraine’. This is how my friend Kiril describes his working day. Kiril is is a sales and business development consultant in a company he manages with a partner. It mainly operates […]
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Una vida en la favela
Written by Sara Martin
Abstract: Carmen Lucia Mareiro Maia, 58 years old, is a nurse who has lived at the Tabajaras community all her life. Tabajaras is a small slum located near the Copacabana neighborhood, the heart of south Rio. It is said that slums here are like little cities inside the city, with […]
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Behind the Gloss of Economic ‘Progress’ in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Written by Maria Hetman
Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2013: there are statistics on the economy, and there are the visible facts. Neither paint a happy picture. According to the World Bank, ”the onset of the global finanical crisis in late 2008 is having an ongoing negative impact on the economy of Bosnia-Herzegovina (B&H) and the country is […]
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Turning to Localization instead of Globalization
Written by Juliana Rincon
I grew up in a time when the barriers between developed countries and developing countries started becoming permeable. Windows opened and I could peek into life in other latitudes. As I learned about lives of people in other places, I absorbed the message that development meant I should aspire to […]
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La invasión de la globalización
Written by Jacinta Escudos
Abstract: In El Salvador, you can see globalization reflected in most streets and shopping malls. International brands have opened shops and deliver services to thousands of enthusiastic Salvadorans who consider the presence and the access to those brands as a symbol of status (understood solely as economic well being.) When […]
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Louis Vuitton’s Golden Suitcase of Discord
Written by Masha Egupova
Imagine Red Square in Moscow with the colorful snow-covered onion domes of St. Basil’s Cathedral, the red bricks of the Kremlin, and the centuries-old cobblestones. They have all witnessed the October Revolution, the defeat of Tsarist Russia and countless military parades. Now imagine a giant 30-meter long two storey high […]
