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When we talk about healthcare in Solomon Islands, it’s back to the very basics. It’s more basic than doctors, hospitals or access to medical supplies. My visit to a coastal village in Ngela, Central Islands Province, really opened my eyes to how the absence of proper sanitation affects people’s health […]

  One old saying well know by Peruvians is: “Peru is a beggar sitting on a golden bench”. Even though its interpretation can be controversial, in some ways it represents an  idea that is well accepted by much of the population: that the country is poor because it does not […]

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 […]

This article is part of a cooperation between Future Challenges and the Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI). SGI’s new study “Change Ahead? Sustainable Governance in the BRICS” examines policy making in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. We’ve asked five of our bloggers to tell us what they think about the reports. At the end […]

On the cusp of Vientiane’s entry into the WTO, a third of its population continues to live below the global poverty line of US$1.25 a day. The author Johannes Loh describes his observations during a research trip to Vientiane as part of the Asian Trends Monitoring team. Laos is a […]