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Waking up to the Future, Today: The Growing Political Consciousness of Bhutanese Youth
Written by Manny Fassihi
Bhutan joined the growing number of democratic countries in the world in 2008 when the nation completed its first national elections and the signing of the Constitution. Five years after this historic transition, Bhutan is a young democracy. But Bhutan is not just a young democracy. It’s a democracy full […]
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The Shameful Frailty of the Rural Healthcare System in India
Written by Parthajit Dasgupta
If the healthcare infrastructure in India is not revived in the near future then it is bound to crumble and when that happens – it will severely affect the economy and the people.
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The Need for Private Health Care in Bhutan
Written by karma pem wangdi
The greatest wealth is health- Virgil I do agree with Virgil here. Though no money can buy health, in modern times it seems that money determines access to better healthcare services all over the world as people have started preferring private healthcare services. In Bhutan too it’s no different. The […]
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El peregrinaje campesino por atención sanitaria en Centroamérica
Written by vlemus
Abstract: Centralamericans believe that the rural misery portrayed by the media in the seventies is gone. Most peasants have left the countryside and now live in the cities or in the US, they assume, but this is not true. Governments have neglected health coverage – which is supposedly free and […]
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Not yet a Party of the people
Written by thesydneyglobalist
China’s incoming leader Xi Jinping has a hefty task ahead of him. He is faced with a Party structure that is increasingly viewed as top-down, and where the leaders of the Party are perceived by a growing middle-class as distant from the people. And he is tasked with reversing this […]
