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‘I just sold organic honey from Brazil to Israel and now I’m working on selling wine from Spain to Ukraine’. This is how my friend Kiril describes his working day. Kiril is  is a sales and business development consultant in a company he manages with a partner. It mainly operates […]

Abstract: Carmen Lucia Mareiro Maia, 58 years old, is a nurse who has lived at the Tabajaras community all her life. Tabajaras is a small slum located near the Copacabana neighborhood, the heart of south Rio. It is said that slums here are like little cities inside the city, with […]

Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2013: there are statistics on the economy, and there are the visible facts. Neither paint a happy picture. According to the World Bank, ”the onset of the global finanical crisis in late 2008 is having an ongoing negative impact on the economy of Bosnia-Herzegovina (B&H) and the country is […]

I grew up in a time when the barriers between developed countries and developing countries started becoming permeable. Windows opened and I could peek into life in other latitudes.  As I learned about lives of people in other places, I absorbed the message that development meant I should aspire to […]

Abstract: In El Salvador, you can see globalization reflected in most streets and shopping malls. International brands have opened shops and deliver services to thousands of enthusiastic Salvadorans who consider the presence and the access to those brands as a symbol of status (understood solely as economic well being.) When […]