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Russia: time to step up and help the community 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Do something good every day. Photo by Howard Lake on Flickr under CC license (CC BY-SA 2.0) Despite the stable growth of the Russian economy, social inequality in the country remains very high. Exper...
La lucha hacia el desarrollo sostenible en Bolivia 27 Aug 2013 | 10:28 am
Desarrollo sostenible. De Johann Dréo en Wikimedia. CC Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported Abstract: In the past three decades, States began to realize the importance of crafting long-term public p....
Brazil and the limits of the possible 25 Aug 2013 | 03:18 pm
Marina Silva in 2008, as minister of the environment. Photo by Agência Brasil, Creative Commons 3.0 Meet Marina Silva. A former senator and minister of the environment for the ruling party, PT (the B...
The Cost of Economic Growth in the Dominican Republic 23 Aug 2013 | 11:51 am
In Canoa, Barahona, Dominican Republic, trash piles up next to a polluted canal in 2008. Residents say there is a lack of municipal infrastructure to deal with an influx of waste in the rural town of ...
Turkey’s Construction Economy and its Environmental Impact 23 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Last summer, I went to pick up a backpacking German friend in Ankara’s busy bus station. After exchanging greetings and talking about how life had been, I asked about his initial impressions of Turkey...
A Step Ahead and Two Behind – The Story of Chilean Women 22 Aug 2013 | 12:25 pm
2013 is election year in Chile. This November we will elect our new president – a female president. Yes! the presidential election is going to be fought between two very prominent politicians and both...
Malthus and Climate Change 21 Aug 2013 | 12:55 am
In 1798, Thomas Malthus published An Essay on the Principles of Population in which he famously argued that the population increases in a geometric ratio, while the means of subsistence increase arith...
Rebalancing Serbia’s budget in anticipation of real austerity 13 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Two months after a public debt crisis was declared and with various anti-crisis scenarios in circulation, the budget of Serbia was rebalanced in early June. If the balancing act had been a play, “Much...
Project Dragon Mart: the Collateral Effects of Economic Growth 13 Aug 2013 | 08:19 pm
After a series of contentious legal disputes, in August 2013 Cancun will finally know whether the Chinese “Dragon Mart” will ever come into existence along the coast of Mexico’s most important tourist...
Ukraine: is sustainability without machine guns possible? 13 Aug 2013 | 04:30 pm
“You see a semi-human being before you, what the state has turned me into,” – says Vladimir Vladykin in his shocking Youtube video. “I’ve had a 180 EUR disability pension since 2005, and in 2010 the r...
