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The Downside of the Digital Tide
According to the article “Africa’s Mobile Future,” the continent’s digital future is bright. New and innovative technologies will have the power to propel a large unemployed and undereducated demographic into accelerated growth. But within this new growth looms a tsunami of Africa’s own e-waste to exacerbate an already challenging issue: […]
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The Mexican Energy Dilemma
Increased environmental awareness and business opportunities have begun to foster new attempts to introduce alternative energies into our daily lives. While the world still relies mostly on traditional energy sources such as coal or oil, growing trends point toward innovation in fields such as geothermic, wind, hydroelectric and solar energies […]
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What Is Civil Society, Anyway?
Biscuit Theory was a flash in the pan. It erupted as an attempt to explain why and how civil society organisations (CSOs) work together, and disappeared just as quickly in a puff of their own transiency. Its simple claim was that the extent of CSO cooperation correlates directly to the […]
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Finance Companies send remittances too!
We all know that immigrants send money home, but did you know that large corporations and international enterprise do the same? They start their businesses in the developing world and then they leave with all the resources and most of the profits – though they also increase the socio-economic standards […]
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The Outlook on Farmland Acqusitions
Over the past couple of years, large-scale acquisitions of farmland in Africa, Asia, and Latin America have made headlines in media reports across the world. Dubbed “land grabs” in the media, these investments have kindled much international debate, in which strong positions have been taken on the impacts of such […]