The Two Tales of the Twenty-twenties
There is general acceptance of two modern-day behemoths: looming global recession and the boundless economic potential of artificial...
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Indigo Hemingway
- Jan 15
- 5 min
China, the Economic Introvert
Seemingly perpetual economic growth and China’s status as an international behemoth may be in question as President Xi Jinping shifts...
Holly Xiao
- Jul 2, 2022
- 4 min
Cultured Meat: A Revolution in Our Food System
Once the pioneer of lab-grown meat, the Netherlands has since lost its head start in the field due to legal and cultural hurdles....
Sanjana Majumdar
- May 24, 2022
- 5 min
LinkedIn: Boon or Curse
‘LinkedIn, the world’s largest platform for professionals to interact and connect with 830 million members across 200 countries’ – or...
Caecilia Hagenberg
- May 17, 2022
- 5 min
The UNspoken advocacy for SA
Immune from Justice If the UN wants to stop advocating for sexual abuse, it needs to act with direction and urgency. The work of UN...
Carlo Felician
- May 12, 2022
- 5 min
The World’s Financial Firefighters Spark Controversy
René Ballivián, Financial Counselor, Bolivian Embassy signs the Bretton Woods agreement, 1944. Following the events of World War II, and...
Riad Guliyev
- Apr 10, 2022
- 8 min
How Does Transition To Clean Energy Influence Financial Markets
Over the past few years, a recurring theme in the news has been the transition to sustainable energy sources. It may not come as a...
Carlo Felician
- Mar 22, 2022
- 5 min
“The Most Important Economic Agreement of the 21st Century”
Members of G20 meet for a two day summit at La Nuvola conference centre, in Rome, Italy, Oct. 30, 2021. On October 31st, 2021, years of...
Caecilia Hagenberg
- Jan 28, 2022
- 5 min
Profits or Eco-Rights?
A couple of weeks ago, Peruvian fishers were robbed of their livelihoods, and an entire maritime ecosystem was put at detrimental risk....
Caecilia Hagenberg
- Dec 15, 2021
- 5 min
Whatsapp’s Global Addicts
Remember that day when Whatsapp was out? And then you panicked and tried Messenger, Facebook, Instagram until you realised only Twitter...
Wouter Hekking
- Dec 14, 2021
- 5 min
Struggle Over Cobalt Supply Disturbs the Clean Energy Revolution
After a series of deals that ended in 2020, a Chinese government-sponsored mining company acquired one of the world’s richest cobalt...
Szandi Zsitnák
- Dec 3, 2021
- 6 min
What happened at COP26?
The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) took place between the 31st of October and the 13th of November...
Oliver Ujvarossy
- Nov 15, 2021
- 5 min
Historical role of working and the vague future
Ora et labora. Pray and work. This was one of the main teachings of Catholicism in the Middle Ages, giving many people what they needed:...
Stella Botta
- Nov 9, 2021
- 6 min
Sharing Covid-19 vaccines: a duty of Western countries?
Since the pandemic’s start, it has always been clear which countries would have had a head start in their vaccination campaign and...
Elisabeth Hoole
- Oct 6, 2021
- 5 min
To End the Pandemic, We Must End Vaccine Apartheid
In May 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) director announced that the world had reached a situation of ‘vaccine apartheid’ – where...
Meriç Özsüer
- Oct 5, 2021
- 8 min
God, Gold, and Glory
We often use the words: “capitalism, liberalism and neoliberalism” interchangeably when referring to the current global economic,...
Szandi Zsitnák
- Sep 28, 2021
- 5 min
Corporate Social Responsibility: A Myth?
In 2013, the Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed in Bangladesh, demanding the life of over 1100 individuals and leaving hundreds...
Meriç Özsüer
- Sep 14, 2021
- 5 min
New Perspectives on Sustainability
It has been two years since Greta Thunberg’s influential speech to the UN leaders about how they failed our world due to many...
Nadia Winona
- Jul 9, 2021
- 12 min
A Conversation with Dennise Yeh: Chief Growth Officer and Experienced Globe Trotter
On an unusually sunny day in Amsterdam, I sat across Dennise Yeh, a Taiwanese-born, internationally-bred businesswoman. Dennise is...
Meriç Özsüer
- May 24, 2021
- 7 min
“Zoom” -ing in Online Education: The Ideal Way of Learning?
After the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic around December 2019, our lives have been drastically changed, regardless of which...
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