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Dennis Snower on creating a global identity
During this year’s Salzburg Trilogue, Dennis Snower gave an interview on the Global Economic Symposium’s attempt to create global identity. He concludes that global problems like climate change and the financial crisis cannot be sufficiently addressed on the national level; they require global cooperation and global solutions. “The GES is […]
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Global Economic Symposium
The world is becoming more interconnected and interdependent, spurred by the forces of globalization and technological advance. This connectedness creates great opportunities (such as the benefits of knowledge diffusion) and equally great dangers (such as international terrorism and climate change). Thus the need for cooperation is growing, both among countries […]
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Cambodia: The Two Sides of Intra-Asian Migration
Migration is a worldwide phenomenon from which Cambodia is no exception. After a long decade of isolation due to genocide and political conflict, this country is now integrated with regional blocs or bodies—like ASEAN and WTO—and has adopted the free market system which is meant to respect the free movement […]
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Rolling on a River: towards partnership or piracy?
Set to ‘transform’ Queensland’s electricity market and improve lives in southern Papua New Guinea (PNG), the recently announced plans for hydro-electricity project in remote PNG to power northern Australia have provoked as much praise as they have condemnation. On the one hand the project may represent a mutually beneficial and […]
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NGOs in Colombia: a long way from heaven but a little further from hell
In Latin America one can say that the distance between government elites and the people has been historically large. The term “citizenship” is still a work in process, but the organization of civil society has become stronger over the past decade. Whether this is an outcome of globalization […]