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The economic boom in Queensland: the social fallout Australia never predicted
Written by Rob Rimmer
This recent article from Salon describes the evolution of a zero-sum game scenario between the Indigenous Amazonian Shuar tribe and international mining companies backed by the Ecuadorian government. The government clearly believes that it cannot remain viable without using Ecuador’s mineral resources as collateral for foreign loans. The Shuar, for […]
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Women: the answer to Italy’s economic and political decline
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The articles about Italy I have read in international press, especially those written after the last elections, are generally uninteresting, often simplistic and rarely illuminating. None of them has yet seriously considered an objective, statistical key point: that the last elections have also given rise to the youngest and the […]
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Mobile phones – new weapons in Pakistan’s war on corruption
Written by Usama Khilji
Beset by economic woes and laboring under rapid demographic change, Pakistan still manages to leverage the power of technological breakthroughs in new and creative ways to improve the workings of government. One such way was found by Zubair K. Bhatti, the government administrator of the district of Jhang, and his […]
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City Living
Written by Jamie Stark
A citizen and his State. This relationship is at the forefront of discussion as the welfare state tests its limits and migration patterns become increasingly metropolitan. Thanks in particular to Millennials, urban migration seems beyond inevitable. Yet this growing trend rarely factors into our larger debates about government’s role in […]
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I am a Woman, a Nepali Woman
Written by Bhumika Ghimire
The first time I had to explain my nationality to a stranger was back in 1996. I was a 15 year old high school student then, hundreds of miles away from home. My Keralite school mate had never heard of a country by the name of “Nepal”, she thought I […]
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La fuga de cerebros: una salvadoreña en la NASA
Written by Mariana Belloso
Abstract: Rita Laura Melgar is a 27 year old Salvadorean, who became a mother when she was 16. As a brilliant student, she managed herself to finish her secondary and superior studies in El Salvador. In her own country, she worked as an assistant teacher, with a US$600 salary. Six […]
