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Migrating for love: the personal, economic and cultural challenges
In our globalised world, it is becoming easier to cross borders but many nations, including Australia, maintain exclusive policies that prevent migrants from participating fully in society. Like my husband, many migrant workers face racism when seeking employment – a reflection of broader nationalistic sentiments in response to […]
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“G Major”: The Key for Successful Global Financial Governance?
Our blogger Michael Carbone reports about the Bertelsmann Foundation’s fifth annual conference which focuses on economic growth through innovation, global financial governance and the eurozone crisis: “System Upgrade: Time for an Economic Reboot“. Today’s international monetary system is too flexible and lacks necessary coordination amongst the central banks of major […]
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Empowering Fijian women through education
Fiji is a developing island nation and the majority of the population live in rural areas of the two main islands. According to a Fiji Bureau of Statistics report in 2009, 31% of the population lived in poverty, most of whom reside in rural Fiji. The situation is worse, with the current recession […]
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“Interdependencies of Megatrends” has become “Inequality”
And the winner is: Inequality! Our FutureChallenges.org project team will soon be turning its attention to (social) inequality – and rightly so. After three years of discussions on the various aspects of globalization on our platform, the user figures clearly show that it’s inequality in all its myriad forms such as lack […]
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Global Migration: Changing the way we define our identity?
When my parents moved to Australia with me as a screaming baby in tow, the situation in Sudan was dire, true, but it was much more an economic and socio-political decision rather than one of safety. This type of migration is increasingly common, particularly to a migration based nation such […]