Thinking global, living local: Voices in a globalized world

  • Thailand Tree Bank

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    This article was originally drafted by the Strategic Foresight Group for the newsletter “Asian Horizons” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Thailand has introduced ‘tree bank’, a new financial model, to help poor farmers repay their loans. The success of the concept could reduce rural […]

  • Thailand Green Jobs

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    This article was originally drafted by the Strategic Foresight Group for the newsletter “Asian Horizons” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. The efforts recently made by the government of Thailand to promote green jobs have the potential to turn green jobs into an alternative source […]

  • Future outlook: Entrepreneurship among the urban poor in 2035

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    This article was originally drafted by Taufik Indrakesuma and Johannes Loh and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy  as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. The Vietnamese capital is undergoing several drastic changes. The city’s look and feel are changing, and the city’s […]

  • Coastal Village Development Programs

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    This article was originally drafted by the Strategic Foresight Group for the newsletter “Asian Horizons” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. The Indonesian government’s focus on developing coastal villages, in the coming years, has the potential to improve the basic standards […]

  • Stopping the violence in Jakarta’s slums

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    This article was originally drafted by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy for the newsletter “Asian Trends Monitoring Bulletin” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Government agencies and other organizations concerned with poverty alleviation typically focus on physical and […]