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Quito vs. The Countryside: Where is poverty worse for women?
Here in the Andes of South America, $2000-3000 USD a year is good money for the average family. Young kids at the Working Boys’ Center in Quito, Ecuador help contribute to their family’s financial well-being. After a normal school day, students here help make and sell crafts, but the projects […]
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Stay poor or drill paradise? Ecuador’s present dilemma
In a live broadcast on television, radio and the web, President Rafael Correa announced that Ecuador will exploit the oil reserves of the ITT area (or a portion of it, located in the Yasuní National Park, the most biodiverse area in the world. In fact in Ecuador there is more […]
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Ecuador: Breaking the Austerity Grip in Music
No one knows what the term “music industry” means in Ecuador. We did have one a long time ago, I think, but it just disappeared because local music couldn’t compete with foreign imports. Nowadays local music can’t compete with them either, even though worldwide record sales are poor and the […]
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Post Millennium Development Goals: Testing the Inclusion of Vulnerable Sectors and Populations
This article was originally drafted by Pasko Kisic and the FORO Nacional Internacional as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Since 2000, Latin American countries have been successful at reaching MDGs. Considering that MDGs were planned until 2015, governments, and international and civil society organizations are […]
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Ecuador: the morally respectable woman
On February the 20th, 2013, a group of young men murdered 20 year old Karina del Pozo, after a party. She was a model for events and fairs, and as many people said, specially on social networks, her line of work was an unmistakable sign of her not taking a […]