San Francisco. New York. Berlin. Medellín? That’s right, add Medellín to the list of entrepreneurial hubs. The Colombian city was named 2013’s Innovative City of the Year by the Wall Street Journal magazine and Citi Bank, over any other cliché startup metropolis. Talk to any paisa, a native of Medellín, […]

In the span of a single generation, Bhutan has proven that its Gross National Happiness (GNH) approach to development can also lead to tangible GDP results. By managing its natural resources and unlocking its hydropower potential, the country has made impressive progress, enabling all segments of society to participate in, […]

Growing up in Curacao, I always found watching the news to be disheartening. It was difficult to see various countries, both bigger and smaller than Curacao, be represented in international forums like the UN, WTO and CARICOM, while trying to understand why Curacao was not. As I began to learn […]

Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2013: there are statistics on the economy, and there are the visible facts. Neither paint a happy picture. According to the World Bank, ”the onset of the global finanical crisis in late 2008 is having an ongoing negative impact on the economy of Bosnia-Herzegovina (B&H) and the country is […]

I grew up in a time when the barriers between developed countries and developing countries started becoming permeable. Windows opened and I could peek into life in other latitudes.  As I learned about lives of people in other places, I absorbed the message that development meant I should aspire to […]