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Sixty-five percent of Africa’s population is under the age of 24, with over 40 percent of the total population below the age of 16, and about 25 percent between the ages 15 and 24. The issue of education is a recurring theme in conversations about Africa’s youth. World Bank data […]

Urban Dreams Offices, salaries and opportunity colour the imagined ideal of The City. While for a privileged few this may indeed be a reality, for many this dream ends upon arrival and the reality of job scarcity, nepotism and high rent dawns. This is particularly so in the context of […]

[jwplayer mediaid=”16971″]   Abstract: In the 1980’s a couple of NGO’s started working on the possibilities of introducing micro-finance in Bolivia. These NGO’s suceeded in their task mainly because they received international cooperation and because state politics allowed them to introduce this new finantial system designed to grant credit to […]

I take Mexico City’s subway twice a day. It is normal to hear “150 songs in MP3 format! It has been tested! It is guaranteed! Take it! Take it!”, or to exit the station to see an entire outdoor market has formed, where you can find anything from perfumes to […]

“Millions of rapacious Germans are coming every year as tourists and eating us out of house and home, tearing up our first class roads, taking shameless advantage of our cheap services, fantastic food and boundless hospitality. … And rapacious Germans forced people to invest their capital in German industry. Germany thrives […]