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Educating its way to growth: Fiji invests in sustainability
Written by Arnold Chanel
Once a prosperous industry, drawing many to Fiji’s shores and an erstwhile key contributor to Fiji’s economic success, the agricultural industry is now in threat of collapse. Agriculture alone accounts for nearly 20% of Fiji’s gross domestic product and sugar exports were equal to 187 million Fiji dollars in 2009. […]
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Stories of Filipino Women told to a Curacaoan
Written by Neelam J. Melwani
During my visit to the Philippines in early August, I noticed very many differences between the lives of the poor in Asia, the Caribbean and Europe. Growing up, I had always found it very difficult to understand the widely different lives people led. Of course, as you grow older you […]
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Closing the gender gap to stop women’s drift into poverty
Written by AylinMatle
Although Germany is one of the most advanced and developed countries in the world, the financial and economic situation of women in Germany is not the best when compared to that of women in other Western countries. This disparity is especially striking when you consider Germany’s political leadership, headed as […]
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Paris, no place for late night shopping?
Written by Stephen Hartka
On September 27, some 70 employees of the French hardware store chain Leroy Merlin gathered in Créteil, a suburb of Paris, not to demand higher wages or shorter hours, but the right to work on Sunday. In a country that prides itself on its carefree lifestyle and boasts one of […]
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Caring and coping: old age carers move in as families move out
Written by Daniel Vekony
This article was written in collaboration with my fellow FutureChallenges author Anikó Mészáros who was of great help in finding the interviewees for this piece. As mobility has increased in Europe, women from poor social backgrounds in Central Europe have hit the road to find the work in Western Europe […]
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#TTIP: Arbeitsplätze sind wichtige Argumente – Partizipation, Transparenz und Verbraucherschutz aber auch
Written by Ole Wintermann
Im Rahmen unserer Kooperation mit dem Internet & Gesellschaft Collaboratory unter der Überschrift “Internet und Globalisierung” hatten wir letzte Woche die Möglichkeit, den britischen Journalisten Glyn Moody als Keynote-Speaker und weitere interessante Teilnehmer bei unserer Panel-Diskussion in der Heinrich Böll Stiftung begrüßen zu können. Hierbei wurde deutlich, und entsprechende Berichte […]
