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  • Chile, the Copper Grail of the World

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    Can an economic model to support future generations of Chileans be based on a nonrenewable natural resource?  Or will it become yet another example of the resource curse? For the last 150 years copper has been the backbone of the Chilean economy. Chile has been able to defeat underdevelopment and […]

  • Beyond Strawberry Picking (Photo: el captain)

    Romania: The EU’s Largest Receiver of Remittances

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    Strawberry nouveaux riches We’ve invented a new word and a social category for them. We call them “capsunari” – which roughly translates as “strawberry-picker,” a term which doesn’t, however, convey the tone of scorn and disdain we usually put into it.  About three million Romanians (13 percent of the country’s […]