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No country for machos: What is there about machismo in Brazil and Latin America?

Campinas, Brazil. A man breaks into a house and kills in cold blood 12 people in New Year’s Eve – amongst them, his own...

The riposte of Thomas Paine to Edmund Burke: “Rights of a Man”

This prominent masterpiece written by Thomas Paine played a pivotal role in the history of human being that embraced all aspects of rights of...

Gandhi and potential

Today as I write this the voice of Mahatma Gandhi is inside my head grooming me I think in ways that are imagined and...

Is Shame Universally Associated with Poverty? An In-Depth Analysis on the Last Empirical Insight

Poverty alleviation has implied an important goal for developing countries and policy-makers in the last century. Recently, organisations such as the United Nations or...

The power of citizen participation

Several times, the concepts analyzed in theory and the ‘how should it be’ don’t really happen in reality, for social scientists like me it’s...

The World in 2017: Under-Employed, Under-Inclusive and Under Threat

Economic inequality, societal polarization and intensifying environmental dangers are the top three trends that will shape global developments over the next 10 years, the...

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Xi Jinping in Cairo: How China Is Deepening Its Strategic Partnership With Egypt

There is a connection between Chinese President Xi Jinping’s...

Is BRICS Really Ditching the Dollar? What the Data Shows

BRICS de-dollarization is real but narrow: it is happening...

Beijing’s Currency Playbook: Cap the Yuan, Buy the Gold, Build the Pipes Around the Dollar

TODAY’S NUMBERS 6.7828 (Monday’s PBOC yuan fix, near-flat)  · ...

Nepal Flood Death Toll Tops 1,000 as Rescue Efforts Expand

Nepal is facing one of its deadliest disasters in...
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