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 Abstract: Dominicans are witnessing immense change in their country as the effects of sustained rapid economic growth becomes clear. Increased levels of pollution have affected small towns like Canoa and have raised new concerns about protecting the environment. Concerned citizens, aware of the threats growth policies pose to the well-being of […]

Just 19 years into democracy, ‘development’ and ‘transformation’ continue to be buzzwords in South Africa. Both terms fit equally well into the conversation around the country’s inclusion in the BRICS group of emerging national economies and the G20. There’s no arguing with the figures related to South Africa’s economic growth […]

Money is, as Bernard Lietaer describes it: the ‘iron ring’ we have put through our own noses which now drags us around. We’ve forgotten that we designed the ring in the first place, and that it is within our capacity to reshape it. What Lietaer is telling us is that […]

Agnes Namagembe is one of 4.2 million Ugandans living in urban areas. Like the majority of Uganda’s urban dwellers, Agnes lives in the capital, Kampala. Like many other African cities, Kampala is informally divided between up market and low market residences. The rich live in upmarket areas of the town […]

Abstract: In Colombia when women leave the country to get to the cities, they don’t necessarily do it by choice, or because they are poor. They leave their houses, their lands and their communities in order to save their lives and their children’s, to escape from violence and forced recruitment. In […]