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The article responds to the Secrets of Transformation multimedia series, a joint project of Bertelsmann Transformation Index and Deutsche Welle.  Are you hungry? Mix a glass of water with a tablespoon of sugar and drink it. Then, eat nothing and do it again tomorrow. And the next day. If you have kids, offer the same […]

The high rate of violence and abuse against women in Fiji is having a negative impact on women’s ability to participate in economic life. Abuse is not just physical, it can also be emotional and financial. The financial abuse suffered by women in Fiji highlights a flaw in governance that […]

Today in the United States there are more poor people living in metro areas outside big cities than within them. From New York to California and Texas where I currently live, poverty is on the rise even in metropolitan areas experiencing steady economic growth and urban development. 50 years ago […]

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 […]