The “Boda Bodas” of Kenya
With the easing of trade restrictions, the motorcycling market in Kenya has been booming since the past decade. It was in 2007 when the...
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Achic Lema
- Apr 26, 2019
- 4 min
Sick countries and the IMF Rescues: The right prescriptions?
In 2018, Argentina received a loan package of $57.1bn, the biggest in the history of the International Monetary Fund (IMF.) It was aimed...
Mihai Vicol
- Apr 24, 2019
- 3 min
Utopia – A Dystopian Dream
What makes a society utopian? Potential responses might include increased leisure time, governments that serve their people or perhaps...
Josh Jinruang
- Apr 23, 2019
- 8 min
Incentivised Democracy
With its average GDP growth of 7.7 percent between 1995-2017, Cambodia was the world’s sixth fastest growing economy. The skyline of its...
Roosa Näveri
- Apr 18, 2019
- 3 min
Was Basic Income the Happily Ever After?
A few years back the world had all eyes on Finland – a Nordic country regularly popping on top of rankings, for example being the...
Berke Çavuşoğlu
- Apr 16, 2019
- 4 min
The Model Behind German Economic Myth:”Der Mittelstand”
“Pencil-makers were first recorded in the city of Nuremberg around the year 1660. Numerous craftsmen also set up shop in the surrounding...
Christoph Meier
- Apr 15, 2019
- 4 min
Deepfakes
Many of us are probably familiar with the saying “A camera never lies” or “A picture tells more than a 1000 words”. These sayings, as...
Katja Komazec
- Apr 12, 2019
- 5 min
Microfinance – a Cure or a Disease?
Microfinance in the form of microcredits was born in the 1970s. The original idea of its founder and Nobel prize winner Muhammad Yunus...
Nastasiia Sokil
- Apr 5, 2019
- 6 min
The Uninhabitable Earth
On the 27th of March Room for Discussion is cooperation with Spui25 and book publisher “De Bezige Bij” hosted an event with David...
Juan Contreras
- Apr 4, 2019
- 3 min
Mental Health
A little has been told about mental diseases and its importance for the well-functioning of the economy. The aim of this article is not...
Mihai Vicol
- Apr 2, 2019
- 6 min
Plato’s World of Forms
Regardless of the lens from which one examines a society’s past, the conflict between masses and sovereignty always appears to be of...
Achic Lema
- Apr 1, 2019
- 3 min
The Poor and Climate Change
Climate change is considered, now, as a threat multiplier to human security. And, those who did the least to cause climate change would...
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