By Katia Gomez
In 2007, not only was the pharmaceutical industry proclaimed the 3rd most profitable industry of the United States by Fortune Magazine, surpassed only by oil production and the communications industry, but it also earned the title of the 12th fastest growing industry out of a ranking of over 50 others.1 The trajectory that [...]
By Ariel Lee
Forsaken is a short documentary created by a team of international students to raise awareness on the issue of Hong Kong’s elderly living in poverty. Significantly, it touches on a subject that not many know about–cage homes, a form of government housing that resembles human chicken coops. With the assistance of [...]
By Apratim Ghosh
The state of West Bengal was once the beacon of India’s education system. Famed universities such as Presidency College and celebrated scholars including Nobel Laureate Rabindanarth Tagore could proudly claim West Bengal as home. However, such plaudits are no longer to be trumpeted due to the abject failure that constitutes the modern West [...]
By Kathleen Richter
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In spite of the Millennium Development Goals and over fifteen years of foreign aid involvement in Bolivia, the maternal mortality rate (MMR) remains high. Unequal income distribution alone cannot account for this high rate, as neighboring countries with similar GINI coefficients have much lower MMRs. Understanding that poverty is not just about [...]
Children and Their Use in Armed Conflict in Chattisgarh, India
By Advait Praturi
Executive Summary
“We are inevitably our brother’s keeper… whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The purpose of this brief is to examine the origins of the use of children in armed conflict in the southern districts of Dantewada and Bastar in [...]
By Dipan Patel
Executive Summary:
In a nation where the cost of healthcare is unaffordable for 80% of the population, public health policy must be restructured to be inclusive of the latest business and technological advancements. In India’s tech capital, Bangalore, Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH) care centers have devised dynamic innovations that have allowed for the very poorest [...]
A Systematic Threat to Globalization Efforts
By Melissa L. Barnhart
Economic globalization refers to the integration of the developing and developed world through the increased flow of goods and services, capital, and labor. Though wide and varied in its processes, the great hope of globalization is commonly understood: that it will raise living standards throughout the world.1 [...]
The Economic Benefits of Fair Trade
By Apratim Ghosh
The Fair Trade program is a form of international trade whose general goal is to provide a balanced set of economic gains for producers and consumers. Its primary concern is to aid small producers of commodity exports from developing countries that have been marginalized by the current trading [...]
How Current WTO Practices Reduce Efficiency and Knowledge Exchange
By Rita Kreig
Globalization has been called the “compression of the world” (Grieg, Hulme, Turner p. 169), and is characterized by the sharing and movement of both physical and intellectual property across state borders, in a manner that is meant to stimulate international interaction and cooperation. Like [...]
Funding Failures Force South Africans to Decide Between Abstinence and AIDS
By Rita Kreig
Executive Summary
The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is a $30 billion U.S. development initiative, which was created in 2003 to decrease the scale of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the fifteen worst-affected countries worldwide. The program provides grants and contracts for [...]
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