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How The Dutch Are Reinventing The Poisoned Food Industry.
Although it has been a year since I moved from my hometown Amsterdam to London, I’m far from integrated in terms of the British food culture. Keeping a ‘normal’ healthy diet, I find it hard to find decent, afforda...
What Should International Development Look Like After 2015?
In 2000, the member states of the United Nations made a historic commitment to achieve eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. The MDGs focus on some of the world’s most pressing development issues, such as pover...
The Other Dream
August 28th marked 50 years since Dr Martin Luther King, jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and explained his dream; an America in which his children would not face the same barriers he did due to the colour of thei...
Banks: Now Even More Central
This past week has only reinforced the idea that central banks are becoming increasingly active in trying to halt the slide towards stagnation in several major economies. This is because their nations’ fiscal policy remai...
Microcredit—Still Sexy?
Nearly seven years ago, the United Nations (UN) declared that 2005 was the ‘year of microcredit.’ Thirty years after Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus pioneered the phenomenon of microcredit (also known as micro-...
Venezuela: A New Chance for Hope
For those of us Venezuelans who fall under the category of ‘opposition’, president Chavez’s death has come to represent a new hope for change. Beyond the respect we have payed for Mr. Hugo Chavez’s death...
