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“I come to work and there are two fags there and my boss is kinda a fag too… So I feel discriminated against. Why do I need it? And if a factory manager with painted lips comes … well I’m sorry. I can just imagine how disgusting and humiliating that […]

Stronger networking between financial systems is one of the key features of economic globalization  – provided of course that national governments are able and willing to welcome foreign investors into their economies. When successful,  foreign investment articulates three goals: it fills capital gaps and brings business know-how to the host […]

There’s a common saying here in tiny El Salvador that roughly translates as, “Two thirds of Salvadorans live in El Salvador. The rest live abroad.” Two American cities, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., have as many Salvadoran residents as San Salvador, the capital city of El Salvador. These millions who […]

Everyone who has ever played Monopoly has wished they could be as rich as they were in the game or at least that they could use Monopoly money in the real world. Well, I offer you a place where this really happens: Argentina, where your money is only valid inside […]

Even when I was growing up in Kathmandu during the past two decades, there were obvious signs that the city was increasingly connecting up to a globalized world. International brandnames, for instance, were slowly making their appearance in Kathmandu’s street retail outlets. You used to go to the big bazaars, […]