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In Search of a Holy Grail: The Future of Light Manufacturing in West Africa
This article was originally drafted by the African Center for Economic Transformation for the newsletter “West Africa Trends” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. With good reason, manufacturing continues to be seen as the Holy Grail of economic transformation. After all, […]
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Iquitos, a city at the crossroads
While some cities have well-established founding dates and receive the benefits of medium and long term planning, there are others that don’t know how and when they were established and don’t know what it is to grow in an orderly manner. Iquitos, a city in the Peruvian Amazon, is one of these […]
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Not a hand out but a hand up: Australians investing for the future
(Source: G. Lyons, Nepal, 2011) Australia as an industrialised nation demonstrates a governance system that is stable, a growing economy and a rapidly expanding technology infrastructure. However what are Queenslanders and Australian’s as a greater community doing in order to assist nations that are economically struggling and fail to implement […]
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Uncertainty and Imbalance
Proper policy formulation is becoming increasingly difficult as greater uncertainty, goals, and divergent paths put roadblocks up for international coordination and forecasting.
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Fiscal Consolidation: A Technical Term for Partisan Quarrels
Congressman Gregory Meeks discusses budget deficits and the need for fiscal consolidation in the United States. But politicians do not appear to be ready to make the tough choices to develop a package of tax cuts and spending cuts that will correct America’s fiscal mess.