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The Inequality Timebomb: how the financial crisis created a social crisis
Written by Jenny Kvaskova
Is inequality rising? What are the different facets of inequality? Future Challenges bloggers from around the world write about this critical issue.
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Women: the answer to Italy’s economic and political decline
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The articles about Italy I have read in international press, especially those written after the last elections, are generally uninteresting, often simplistic and rarely illuminating. None of them has yet seriously considered an objective, statistical key point: that the last elections have also given rise to the youngest and the […]
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The Western Balkans: A social contract in transition
Written by Bojana Ruzic
In the middle of March in Brussels about 40 representatives of civil society from European Union candidate countries (South-East Europe, Turkey and Iceland) attended the European Commission study tour “Direct democracy and e-democracy as a means for fostering transparency, civic engagement and participation” as part of People 2 People program. […]
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A Date with Private Welfare
Written by Lourdes Gomez
It was pretty delightful, the time we spent together was indescribable. Mr Welfare had really committed, promised me that he was there to support me describing himself as “responsible for the development of service delivery policy and provides access to social, health and other payments and services.” So I thought, […]
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Take and divide? No more Sharikov!
Written by Oleg Shynkarenko
Whenever I hear about the so-called “welfare-state model”, I always think of Polygraf Polygraphovitch Sharikov. He is a protagonist in Mikhail Bulgakov’s fantastic story The Heart of a Dog. In the early days of the USSR, a professor-surgeon created a hybrid between a dog and a man, which turned into […]
