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With ACTA Lessons Unlearned, An Uncertain Future for “21st Century” Free Trade Agreements
Written by Michael Carbone
Our blogger Michael Carbone reports about the Bertelsmann Foundation’s fifth annual conference which focuses on economic growth through innovation, global financial governance and the eurozone crisis: “System Upgrade: Time for an Economic Reboot“. As representatives from around the world arrived in Washington DC for the Spring Meetings of the World […]
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How Not to Run the Global Economy: International Trade and Finance as Geo-Political Maneuvering
Written by Michael Carbone
Our blogger Michael Carbone reports about the Bertelsmann Foundation’s fifth annual conference which focuses on economic growth through innovation, global financial governance and the eurozone crisis: “System Upgrade: Time for an Economic Reboot“. In the lead-up to IMF and World Bank’s Spring Meetings, the Bertelsmann Foundation and the Financial Times […]
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The Stat(u)e Joke: Romania’s Failed Tax System
Written by Dragos C. Costache
There’s an old Communist-era joke that neatly sums up the way most Romanians think about the relationship between the state and the individual. It hinges on a play on words so is not so easy to translate into English: “Știi bancul cu Statuia? Statu’ ia tot.” (Do you know the […]
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Mujeres que reactivan la cadena productiva en Bolivia
Written by Lucia Querejazu
Abstract: La Paz and El Alto cities produce 27% of the daily garbage in Bolivia. Every day in these cities, specially at night, women and their children go out to look for the residues from homes and offices in order to separate and classify organic waste from plastic bottles, cardboard, […]
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Migration in South America: the Many Colors of Brazil
Written by Aline Marsicano Figueiredo
In Brazil, immigration regains a central position in public debates as Bolivians arrive in increasingly greater numbers, revealing a renewed potential for Latin American integration. The result is a promising cultural blend that will add to the already very effervescent Brazilian milieu.
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Migration to a British university: three tales from Europe
Written by Dominika Kaczkowska
The term migration is usually associated with the movement of 25+ year old people driven by changes in the economy. Yet there is another type of migration which is as equally important but often neglected in the literature. With the 2004 enlargement of the European Union millions of young people […]
