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Locally Manufactured Wind Turbines Provide Affordable Electricity
This article was originally drafted by Oluchi Agbanyim 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. What protracts poverty in most communities in the Sahel is lack of energy, and one […]
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How Much Does Education Cost?
The following article deals with the topic “Effective Investments in Education,” which was discussed at the Global Economic Symposium in Rio. The author intends to promote ongoing discussion of this topic by sharing her personal stories and ideas. As a fundamental right, and the key difference-maker for successful development, education in Brazil already has a […]
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Pakistan Hockey – Green Gold turned to Lead.
The whole nation used to wait for the broadcast and support the Pakistan team, cheering them on on the radio, and waiting for them to sweep the hockey ground at a far away international tournament. Those were the glory days for the green shirts of the Pakistan hockey team when […]
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BRICS Reports: An Elephant In Motion
This article is part of a cooperation between Future Challenges and the Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI). SGI’s new study “Change Ahead? Sustainable Governance in the BRICS” examines policy making in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. We’ve asked five of our bloggers to tell us what they think about the reports. At the end of […]
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Green the Gap
The following article deals with the topic “ OOPs—Out of Prison” which was discussed at the Global Economic Symposium in Rio. The author intends to promote ongoing discussion of this topic by sharing his personal stories and ideas. At Wednesday’s Ideas Fair, attendees of the Global Economic Symposium had the […]