Superbugs spread through the environment – and it needs urgent attention.
Many African researchers feel they should do research that would be acceptable for publication in Western outlets.
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Skiing in a mall is bizarre enough. But a mall dubbed the ‘American Dream’ – when malls are vanishing, along with the postwar vision of the American Dream – is its own brand of eerie dissonance.
Orphan Swazi schoolboys playing soccer in a local school in Mbabane, Swaziland, in 2006.
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Tegwen Gadais, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Whether it’s global conflicts or communities in trouble, the solutions to peace and prosperity aren’t only found by government. Sports, too, can bring about much-needed change.
More workers are demanding the flexibility to work out of the office.
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The law missed the opportunity to address misuse of mineral royalties and increase transparency as well as accountability in mineral royalty management.
Nobel Prize Laureates in Economic Sciences Michael Kremer, Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee.
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Economic growth is a red herring if economies can’t stop themselves shrinking more and more.
Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Economics to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer (from left to right on the screen) during a press conference held at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on 14 October 2019.
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The country has not had a seat at the Security Council table for 24 years.
In Mexico, more than half of workers in the industrial and non-agricultural services sectors do not have access to social security.
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Multinational corporations are increasingly vigilant about respecting human rights, but the case of Mexico tells us that they can indirectly encourage violations by local businesses.
Men have nipples because of a quirk in how embryos develop. But that’s only part of the story of this seemingly redundant body part.
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The man whose book outsold all others, except the Bible.
The hope is that building ‘a smart city in the forest’ in North Penajam Paser and Kutai Kartanegara regencies will ease Jakarta’s myriad problems. But it’s not that simple.
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Countries in Africa have some of the highest rates of entrepreneurship in the world, yet their contribution to the economy is limited. Technology such as the blockchain, drones and AI could provide a way forward.