Thinking global, living local: Voices in a globalized world

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  • Brazil – what’s the next step?

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    The church bells sound here in Leme, the neighborhood where I live in the south zone of Rio de Janeiro. They’ve been rung three times this afternoon. After the second peal I heard a call for a march. Another march in Rio. Another demonstration for a better Brazil. It’s weird to hear the […]

  • Transatlantic Free Trade: Economic Winners and Losers

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    The following post was written by Thieß Petersen, Ulrich Schoof and Samuel George from the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Global Economic Dynamics team. At the G8 summit in Dublin in June 2013, the world’s most powerful leaders decided to begin negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). For at least […]

  • Can West Africa Power Pool adopt off-grid lighting

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    This article was originally drafted by Terfa Hemen and the Centre for Democracy and Development for the newsletter “West Africa Insight” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Constant electricity supply continues to be a huge challenge for the developing nations of West Africa. Most West African nations have […]

  • The 57 varieties of globalization – where do we start?

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    Day Three of the Tällberg Forum dealt with the topic of leadership in a globalized complex world. And throughout the day the palpable air of uncertainty and tentativeness that hung over experts and ordinary non-experts alike was very striking – regardless of whether speakers were attempting to approach globalization in […]

  • 240,000 Brazilians protest across country for reforms

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    São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and five other Brazilian cities have already announced bus fare cuts By Rasheed Abou-Alsamh BRASILIA, Brazil – In a movement devoid of any overt political demands and run mostly by young Brazilians fed up with being ignored for so long, Brazilians across the country spilled […]