Only one in four people in the work force worldwide have a secure job with a permanent contract. The remaining three-quarters are
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The plight of the Negev Bedouin continued as Israel’s Supreme Court recently ruled that the village of Umm al-Hiran would be destroyed and
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The Chinese life insurance market has grown exponentially since the start of the millennium. Now the fifth largest life insurance market globally,
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Ideally the modern state is supposed to generate the necessary basic conditions for its citizen’s wellbeing and continuously improve its own systems
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Silicon Valley has long been trumpeted as both the ideal and center of America’s entrepreneurial energies and business acumen. It has been an
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The nuclear talks between Iran and the Six Powers have dominated headlines for the first week of April. After days of tense
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As has been widely reported in global media, the former prime minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew has passed away at the
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Images of elephant rides through the jungle, bustling markets, and sipping a Singha on a white sand beach are often what come
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Trends in urbanization are often accompanied by even more significant trends of depopulation in rural areas. Japan presents an extreme case in
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For hundreds of years, people have been flocking to cities where jobs, ideas, and wealth are generated. Cities have been perceived as
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