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The article responds to the Secrets of Transformation multimedia series, a joint project of Bertelsmann Transformation Index and Deutsche Welle.  Colombia has a presidential system of government which means that the head of government is elected through popular vote and that the executive and legislative terms are fixed and do not need mutual ratification. So […]

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, […]

Abstract: Is globalization a fad? After all everyone seems to have an opinion about it. In Colombia globalization has several meanings, depending on who you ask, even if people don’t have access to internet or technology, everyone is quite aware on the many ways, – some of them positive, some […]

Abstract: Growth vs. Sustainability? Inclusive growth? These questions are actual future challenges. No one denies that. Yet here I suggest another way of reading those questions, of raising other questions and see deeper so that we can visualize what is actually at stake: human beings. Don’t mind me, I am […]

Abstract: In Colombia when women leave the country to get to the cities, they don’t necessarily do it by choice, or because they are poor. They leave their houses, their lands and their communities in order to save their lives and their children’s, to escape from violence and forced recruitment. In […]