Scenic view of Toba Lake, one of Indonesia’s top tourism destinations.
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Urat village is one of Indonesia’s many potential for rural tourism. However, study finds that indigenous people still feels left out to develop their own tourism business in their own areas.
Residents of Denver’s Five Points neighborhood protest in 2017 outside a coffee shop that posted a sign celebrating gentrification.
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Hip food offerings can signal that a neighborhood is gentrifying – especially when they repackage traditional foods for wealthy white eaters.
What’s on the cards.
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The SNP administration has adopted a fashionable so-called ‘mission-oriented’ approach for its flagship economic development plan, but it looks a lot like mission impossible.
A developing country such as South Africa needs to increase its PhD output.
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If South Africa focuses on getting more PhDs, universities will also increase other graduates in the pipeline.
Coal miners return on a buggy after working a shift underground at the Perkins Branch Coal Mine in Cumberland, Oct. 15, 2014.
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Economic and political trends are driving a shift away from coal. What kind of assistance do coal workers and communities need?
More than 300,000 hectares of subtropical forest in Paraguay have burned since July due to illegal land clearing for agriculture, according to the National Security Ministry, Oct. 1, 2019.
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Yerba mate is a wildly popular South American tea with a growing global market. Can this ‘superfood’ save Paraguay’s tropical forests, too?
The winners.
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Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer win the Nobel Prize for Economics ‘for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty’.
The Morrison win doesn’t mean the issue of climate change lacks cut through, or won’t have potency in the future.
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Sometimes birthdays are best let pass quietly. The Liberals are finding the 75th anniversary of their founding another unfortunate occasion for the blood sport they thought they’d put behind them.
Palm oil development is not just about the economy but also needs to consider social and environmental costs.
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There are studies showing that farmers can have economic benefits from palm oil. However, they can also be impoverished by the commodity.
Brazil’s wildfires are closely linked to deforestation which Brazil had successfully slowed last decade.
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As deforestation rates in Brazil rise, it’s worth asking whether the country can repeat the successes of the last decade. Current trends don’t bode well.
Jakarta’s shortcomings as a capital are obvious: it has headline-grabbing problems with congestion, pollution, and land subsidence.
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Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” decision to relocate the country’s capital is seen as an effort to shift economic activity and address infrastructure gaps outside of Java and Sumatra.
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Populism is on the rise in countries where inequality has been fairly stable over time, as well as countries where inequality has grown.
Some states and cities are getting very little for the taxpayer dollars they hand out to companies.
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Recent scandals involving economic development programs in New Jersey and Maryland highlight their many flaws, including a lack of oversight and their ineffectiveness.
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In Narendra Modi, India has found a development messiah.
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As India grapples with boosting the number of jobs available to people, it must ensure it does not leave women behind.
First time voters take a selfie after voting in Bhopal in May 2019.
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This is a transcript of part 6 of India Tomorrow, focusing on India’s huge population of young people.
Jobs on the line.
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Regional authorities require real teeth to protect their towns from big shocks like factory closures.
Presidential Candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari (L) and his running mate, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (R) attend a campaign rally.
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Buhari’s handling of the economy has been somewhere between poor and appalling. But the same could be said of past administrations.
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There is a plethora of highly troubling issues facing the global economy that are caused, in part, by globalisation.
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Sovereign access to the Pacific would bring Bolivia significant economic benefits.