Guest Roast: Mining Companies’ Violations In Developing Countries—Who Is...
By Grahame Russel Increasingly, over the past few years, information has been published about serious human rights violations and health and environmental harms being caused in Guatemala by (mainly)...
View ArticleDoes Biological Preservation Prevail Over Cultural Sustainability? The...
With the highest concentration of jaguars in the world and an incredibly rich tropical biodiversity, the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary in Belize is an invaluable area not only for its scientific...
View ArticleCulture or Law? What counts more in social-environmental change?
Last night I tagged along to a dinner in Bangkok where I met a couple of executives of Thailand’s national energy company. Needless to say that, as someone with environmentalist proclivities, I was...
View ArticleSynthetic grass: Bolivia’s gift to the masses gone wrong
One of the wonderful things about economic science is that it is the science of incentives. It analyzes how humans respond to incentives and, despite evidence from other social sciences, how these...
View ArticleGiving to beggars is bad and exploitative labor is good
Two days before Christmas I spent an hour watching a beggar. Would you like to hazard a guess at how many people gave to her? She was an old woman. She looked ancient but was probably only 50 or 60...
View ArticleOpinion: Why happiness does not matter for the problem of poverty.
As shown in our post “Is there more to life than money? Mapping happiness of people and planet”, several attempts have been made to measure happiness and wellbeing globally. However, consensus proved...
View ArticleGraphics: Bolivia tops Violence Against Women in Latin America chart.
In a March 2013 report, the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, presented comparative cross-country data on the state of...
View ArticleGuest Roast: Building an inclusive model around extractive industries in Peru
By Ricardo Morel Berendson The mining boom in Peru during the 1990s attracted private investment that led to current economic growth. However, this did not translate into sustainable development of the...
View ArticleHow Dishonesty Works
Leerlo en español AQUI Any economist who thinks people are rational, should read the books “Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions” and “The (Honest) Truth About...
View ArticleA Face of Internal Displacement in Colombia
By Paula Fynboh There’s a cemetery near Montgomery, Minnesota (USA) where my parents will be buried. It’s the same cemetery where my grandparents were buried. And it is the same place where my...
View ArticleFather’s Day and teenage pregnancy in Bolivia
By: Lykke E. Andersen* Fertility rates have been going down all over the World much faster than most people realize. Fertility rates in Bolivia, for example, have come down from 6.5 babies per woman in...
View ArticleCan you envision a sustainable world? Do you dare to dream today?
By Susana del Granado * “A vision comes not from the intellect or the mind but from the heart, from the soul” Donella Meadows Today, June 5th , we celebrate World Environment Day and, as a celebration,...
View ArticleChanging Wealth – Changing Health
By: Lykke E. Andersen* Bolivia has recently changed from a low income country to a lower-middle income country, and with that increase in incomes the disease burden has also changed. In 1990, Bolivia’s...
View ArticleDeath penalty versus castration: A thought experiment
By: Lykke E. Andersen* Stories about sexual violence against girls and women are common in the Bolivian news, but recently the stories have escalated to such hideous levels that the Vice-President of...
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