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  The 2008 financial collapse doubtlessly meant a turning point for Spain according to different perspectives. However, the most outstanding one could be the country’s political transformation shifting from its two-party system established since the 1978’s democratic transition with a decision-making process ruled by economic and political elites, to the […]

India is no doubt a country of contrasts, the starkest one being in educational attainment. According to the 2009 Right to Education Act, elementary education is free and compulsory for all children from the ages of 6 to 14. All direct costs such as schools fees or indirect costs like […]

Sarah Bernhardt once said, ”legends remain victorious in spite of history”. She couldn’t have said it better. In fact, legends still remain with us even today. That can be said of Ghana’s founder, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, a scholar, a president, unionist, revolutionist and a gallant soldier of African dignity. Last […]

If we got paid for all the times we heard ‘water is life’, we probably would not need it anymore; we’d be drinking, bathing, and doing everything else with gold – that’s how wealthy we’d be. How important is this most vital of natural resources? On the 28th of July […]

One need not be a conspiracy theorist to feel uneasy about the power of the Federal Reserve. The American central bank is the world’s most influential financial institution, controlling the supply of the dollar, the global reserve currency. Its objectives aren’t always straightforward, as are those of the European Central […]