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  • Ashok Bharti, Dalit leader, India

    Delhi Gives Hope but not Work

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    “People need hope, people need loving  People need trust from a fellow man  People need love to make a good living  People need faith in a helping hand…” So sang Abba a few decades back. Sadly, hope, trust, love and faith are all in short supply. Well, so are jobs, […]

  • Brazil: Jobs in Hiding

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    When I moved to the United States from Brazil in August of 2008, I was ready to become part of the long-famous phenomenon of brain drain. As I first stepped onto my college campus, I envisioned the future smoothly: amazing grades, a wonderful finance internship on Wall Street, followed by […]

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    Heartbreak by the Nile

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    Globalization has great benefits and great side effects. When the global economy is doing well, a lot of people try moving to the developed world for a better life while an ailing economy also forces people to find jobs elsewhere. Economic knockdown is perpetuating bad labor practices both in the […]

  • The 5 W’s of Nigeria’s Unemployment: Act 1

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    A young woman struggles through university, enduring a few strikes, disreputable advances from cultists, depraved lecturers and other similar low-life and manages to graduate with a second class upper degree, maybe even a first class. She’s from a low income family, maybe the first or second from her kindred with […]