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Sustainable Development: Video Interview with Jan Rieländer (OECD)
Written by Dragos C. Costache
On my first day at the GES I had the pleasure of kicking off the GES interviews by sitting down with Jan Rieländer, an economist with the OECD and a specialist in one of the topics that are really dear to me, African development. I asked Mr. Rieländer about the […]
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Experience It for Yourself: Photos from the GES 2013
Written by Shahzeb Younis
This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013. Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/.
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The UK’s Cancerous Poverty Crisis
Written by Guy Sephton
The gap between the rich and the poor in the UK is just as big an issue as ever. Today though, this gulf is presenting new problems in the form of one of Britain’s biggest killers in recent years: breast cancer. Since the 1970s, the disease has developed from affecting relatively […]
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From Pakistan to Germany — For a Better Tomorrow
Written by Shahzeb Younis
This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013. Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. While growing up in a tiny underdeveloped village in Pakistan, where even the availability of electricity was a blessing, I had seen the best and the worst of life at a very young age. The people around […]
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Redefining Success: the Story of the Blind Men and the Elephant
Written by Ajinkya
This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013. Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. What is success? Why redefine it? What’s the deal with “sustainability”? Why is it important? If you attended the recently concluded Global Economic Symposium (GES 2013), you would have heard at least a dozen different perspectives […]
