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The New Bottom Billion: Sino-African Trade as a Form of South-South Development Cooperation
Written by Dominika Kaczkowska
This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013 to accompany a session on “Development Policies for the New Bottom Billion.” Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. There is an astonishing fact about some of the emerging middle-income countries: they actually give foreign aid. Despite having the bulk of the “new bottom billion,” countries like China, India, and South […]
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Dominika Kaczkowska
Blogger for @FutureChall_org and Global Economic Summit 2013 #GES. Student for MA Eur Pub Affairs @MaastrichtU; completed her Bsc. @unibirmingham. Polish immigrant who lived in England, Germany and the Netherlands. Affiliated to @UpRisingYF, @KongresKobiet, @theRSAorg
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The New Bottom Billion: The Ethics of International Aid Cuts to the Poor in Middle-Income Countries
Written by Dominika Kaczkowska
This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013 to accompany a session on “Development Policies for the New Bottom Billion.” Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. The image of a malnourished child somewhere in Africa no longer corresponds to the reality of poverty today. The world’s poor live in countries we travel […]
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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 […]
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Rape culture and sexism in Britain: you asked for it, bitch!
Written by Dominika Kaczkowska
When celebrating International Women Day, I think how fortunate I am to have so many rights and liberties. All women in Britain have a right to education, job opportunities, health treatment and the vote, and they can travel, drive vehicles and marry (or not) whoever and whenever they desire. I […]
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Britain’s welfare state – an outsider’s view
Written by Dominika Kaczkowska
High numbers of pensioners, young people’s drive for education and prosperity and the growing gap between the young and the rich are all changing the British landscape. The welfare state which provides assistance to all of its citizens is slowly dying and being replaced by a new way of thinking: […]
