Thinking global, living local: Voices in a globalized world

  • Regularizing the Maid Trade in Domestic Workers from Cambodia to Malaysia

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    This article was originally drafted by Rob Jamieson and Indochina Research for the newsletter “I-Light” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. In the past three years, up to 25,000 young Cambodian women have migrated to Malaysia in pursuit of better paid employment as domestic workers. The […]

  • 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 […]

  • Privatizing Public Planning

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    This article was originally drafted by Noviscape for the newsletter “Trendnovation Southeast” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Urban and regional planning is generally perceived as the duty and responsibility of public organizations. In most, if not all, Southeast Asian countries, […]

  • Bangkok’s Neglected Water Wealth

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    I was in Bangkok last mid-April when it started to pour heavily with rain. I was in Sukumvit Road, the heart of the commercial district. Trying to walk to my hotel, I found that my road quickly flooded with rain within a few hours. I returned to Kathmandu, and followed […]