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Garbage In – Nigerian Police Force out!
Easy evening; reading up on the requirements for one job I’ve been eyeing when I stray to Twitter (*sigh*) and see a link to an article by @BellaNaija titled, ‘N150 Daily Meal Allowance, 50 Recruits Sharing A Fish Head… More Sad Facts Emerge about the Nigerian Police College, Lagos‘. Convinced that @BellaNaija […]
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Rethinking National Development Banks’ role after the financial crisis
This article was originally drafted by Fernando Prada and the FORO Nacional Internacional for the newsletter “Agenda Suramerica” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. A recent survey of National Development Banks (NDBs) —state-owned financial institutions set out to foster economic development and social development as part […]
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The Drought Strikes Back: Power Production in Central America
Abstract: Hydroelectric power is very much like petrol: no one thinks we’ll ever run out of it until we do. Water is bountiful in Central America, you may think; we have rain pouring down on us for almost six months of the year and water is, by definition, a renewable resource. […]
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Sobre cómo el empleo es un juego de azar
Abstract: The rules under which employment is framed are a mystery to me, the criteria on experience and preparation are always contradictory: you don’t need to have experience, yet you need it if your CV is to be considered; competitiveness has created a game in which “anything goes” – strategies […]
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Agenda for the East Africa Future Day in Nairobi, 12 November 2012
As part of its Trend Monitoring and Horizon Scanning function in the Greater Horn of East Africa, the Society for International Development will organize a Future Day in collaboration with Future Challenges and the Rockefeller Foundation around questions of regional integration – how this is being perceived by its citizens […]