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Solomon Islands: young people flock to the city in search of jobs
In search of employment opportunities, young people from the outer provinces of Solomon Islands flock to Honiara – the country’s capital – in massive droves. There, they bunk with their extended relations who live in peri-urban settlements and in overcrowded housing. The only source of drinking water is from a […]
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A Zero-Sum Game?
Rapid globalization makes competition for land, raw materials and other resources intense. When the stakes are so high, can rural, indigenous peoples and urban, industrialized communities both benefit from resource extraction? Or is this situation a zero-sum game?
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Moving ahead to new horizons – transparency, participation, sustainability
Moving ahead to new horizons might be a good project title for the happenings in the first week in July in Berlin which gave us the opportunity to step back for a moment, examine what we normally take for granted and venture a look forward as well as a glance […]
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The Human Costs of the Recession
It has been almost four years since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), however its effects are still being felt throughout the world. Although there is evidence to indicate the recovery is well underway, the unemployment numbers of youth, particularly in South East Asia and the Pacific, suggest a slightly different […]
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Occupy Wall Street – why on FC_org?
FutureChallenges.org is focussing on Occupy Wall Street – why? For us it’s a good example of what we are talking about – Occupy Wall Street (OWS) gives the correlations of megatrends a real face. It makes FC_org touchable, real! And hopefully better understandable. OWS makes the clash of at least […]