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I work abroad from time to time. Currently, I`m based in Dubai. Before departure I faced many Dubai related clichés and got the notion that allthough everybody has an idea about the emirate, few have actually been there longer than a day or two. That´s why I want to tell […]

On my first day at the GES I had the pleasure of kicking off the GES interviews by sitting down with Jan Rieländer, an economist with the OECD and a specialist in one of the topics that are really dear to me, African development. I asked Mr. Rieländer about the […]

Last month, I asked a friend to buy me made-in-Palestine T-shirts. She sent me three T-shirts with paintings that unmistakably showed they were made in Palestine. I am not the only one who does this; many Palestinians do it not only out of patriotic pride but for solid economic reasons […]

Bella Abzug, a late feminist activist and American politician is famously quoted as having stated, regarding the equality of men and women in the workplace: “The test of whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes”. I personally agree 100%. And […]

For a long time, development indicators have been linked with two important elements: the first is health, and the second is environmental health. Both of these are related to the social structure which is the basis for the development process.  Furthermore, human development is, significantly linked to the planning and […]