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What started as a project to help improve the English language skills of underprivileged kids turned into something a lot more for the group of volunteers who ventured out to teach students at the Dar-ul-Shafqat, an orphanage in Pakistan. With activities ranging from English language workshops to playing cricket and letting the kids sing […]

You can live in relative peace in El Salvador, if you have the resources to afford it. There’s a direct relation between how poor people are, and how vulnerable they are in front of the country’s violence and insecurity.

A minority, the same portion of the population with de higher income, can buy “peace”, in the form of private security services, bodyguards, armored vehicles or extra secured houses.

But the rest, the people with lower income, have to deal with robbery, violations, extortions, and other types of violence. 

Russia is cursed with its resources: the oil and gas industry is growing so fast that 50% of the federal budget and three quarters of exports depend on its production. It seems that the country does not produce anything, but just relies on its natural resources.  At the same time […]

If in America the political battle is waged on the premise of economic policy, with low taxes and free markets on the one side and regulation and progressive taxation on the other, in Slovenia the battle is fought over ideological views of events that happened during and after the Second […]

Researchers from the Asian Trends Monitoring (ATM) team took a look at alternative futures in Hanoi and developed four very different scenarios for how the city’s entrepreneurs would do in the year 2035. The Vietnamese capital is undergoing several drastic changes. The city’s look and feel are changing, and the […]