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When Jane opened a letter from her manager about her request for a pay rise, she was overcome with that sinking feeling that many Australian working women know only too well. After 13 years as a medical receptionist at an inner city Melbourne medical practice, not only did the response […]

Every year in early November, the “Day of the Dead” is celebrated in Mexico. It’s a public holiday that reflects a mixture of pre-Hispanic festivities from the Aztecs, combined with the Catholic influence of All Souls’ Day brought in by the Spanish conquest. This day is one of Mexico’s most […]

The 2012 U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney may have drawn guffaws and jeers for his wide-grinned proclamation that “corporations are people,” but there is some truth in that comment. At least in spirit. It’s no secret that the United States government is largely driven by the aims and actions of […]

Joyce Bwambale is a smallholder coffee farmer on the slopes of the Rwenzori mountains. Like many smallholder farmers on the mountain, Joyce depends on coffee as her main cash crop. This season Joyce is upbeat that the coffee harvest will be good. In a season of bumper harvests like this […]

Inclusive growth is a concept created to counterbalance the shortcomings of the pure market economy. As much as any other concept that pursues the same aim, its foundations rest on principles that are not always clearly expressed, sometimes for electoral reasons, sometimes out of ignorance. In the case of inclusive […]