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Higher ed., higher costs
Written by Jamie Stark
Budget battles in Wisconsin highlight Millennials’ rough start in the working world By Jamie Stark While college is often considered a prerequisite for success in the American workforce (perhaps now more than ever), it is no longer a safety blanket in the journey toward financial stability and comfortable living. Recent […]
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Ricardo is dead
Written by Ole Wintermann
Disclaimer: The article was written both from a perspective of a developed country and a devoloping country. Maria Farooq, Ole Wintermann One Dimensional Perspectives: A Risk for Globalisation? The 250 year old thesis is that globalization is a win-win-situation. The reason for that is the specialization of every country on […]
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Keep calm Brits, the Romanians are coming!
Written by Andreea Vasile
It’s been seven years since Romania joined the European Union and even though this event sounded like arriving in the promised land, this wasn’t quite the case. Great Britain didn’t give work permits to Romanian citizens as the government was afraid of what they called a potential … “invasion”. We’re […]
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GES Open Solution: Win a Ticket to Kiel!
Written by Mario Wiedemann
The Global Economic Symposium (GES) aims to provide a new collaborative setting to analyze the world’s most important economic problems, create shared visions of the future and formulate innovative strategies to achieve these visions. This year the symposium will take place from October 1st to 2nd in Kiel, Germany. The […]
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Social progress – thanks to social participation
Written by Future Challenges team
Studying true social well-being: The factors countries use to measure progress – and why public debate on the topic is enough to spark change. Increasing gross domestic product alone is not an adequate measure of social progress, something that many people around the globe have come to recognize. In various […]
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The long winding road to the EU-India free trade agreement
Written by Anuja Upadhyay
No economy can grow in isolation and in that respect trade plays a very important role. However, before getting into any trade agreement you need to do a proper cost-benefit analysis. The European Union has had its share of problems from mounting fiscal deficits to chronic depression, and India as […]
