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The New Bottom Billion: The Ethics of International Aid Cuts to the Poor in Middle-Income Countries
Written by Dominika Kaczkowska
This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013 to accompany a session on “Development Policies for the New Bottom Billion.” Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. The image of a malnourished child somewhere in Africa no longer corresponds to the reality of poverty today. The world’s poor live in countries we travel […]
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When Politics Help Religion and Religion Helps Politics
Written by Yohana de Andrade
This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013 to accompany a session on “Can Religion Help Solve Global Problems?” Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. In 1999, during a hot spring week, as weeks usually are in Bahia, Brazil, Gildásia dos Santos e Santos began to live her last months on […]
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The Odyssey of Evo Morales or the Illusion of Diplomatic Immunity
Written by Diego Salama
On July 2nd, Bolivian president Evo Morales prepared to board his country’s presidential airplane (FAB001) en route back to La Paz after participating in a presidential summit in Moscow. Well into the flight, he was informed that France, Portugal, Italy and Spain – where the plane was due to […]
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Five Reasons Why We Need a New Perspective on Consumption
Written by Ajinkya
This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013 to accompany a session on “Towards Sustainable Consumption.” Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. The concept of “sustainable consumption” comes from the straightforward insight about the limits of our ecology to sustain the Earth’s burgeoning population; as one African elder summarized the meaning of sustainable […]
