Chile, Spain and Mexico lead the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) figures for having the highest number of young people who are neither in work nor in education. Among the associated problems are the greater difficulty in finding work, lower salaries and having a lower standard of living […]
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Poetry in the words of women
This festival, named ‘Cry of Woman’ 2013, will take place in countries all over the world, beginning with a large scale poetry reading on Saturday 16 March 2013, in Santo Domingo. Gioconda Belli wrote that ‘I am a woman who thinks. Some day my eyes will light up fireflies.’ Belli […]
Developing countries receive another blow as foreign aid is cut
The governments of the world’s richer nations have invested billions in rescuing banks and other economic institutions in the wake of the financial crisis. But countries are finding themselves further and further off the target of donating 0.7% of their GDP to developing nations by 2015 as laid out in […]