UNICEF estimates the world has about 650 million females who married under the age of 18. Child marriages not only limit individual human rights, but also perpetuate poverty and inequality for entire communities and countries. Nonyelum A. Ujam, who works with the Central Bank of Nigeria and is a...
Not made in heaven: Nigeria’s child bride with newly married husband; Nigeria’s young girls face a bleak future
ABUJA, NIGERIA: The United Nations International Children’s Education Fund, UNICEF, defines a child as any person below the age of 18...
Life expectancy is higher worldwide, and governments and individuals respond by hiking the retirement age. “Fueled by changes in lifestyles, working practices, diet and medical advances, people living today can expect to live up to 30 to 40 years longer when compared with people at the beginning of...
Some challenges are pervasive, so intertwined with other problems that societies give up, considering them impossible to tackle. Gender inequality, one such global concern, is linked to domestic and international conflict, radicalization and troubled economies, explains Joan Johnson-Freese,...
Inequality and security: Women in the West protest abuse in #MeToo movement, and elsewhere, women can also act as the eyes and ears for security in their communities
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS: Gender equality is more often than not viewed as a social...
Globalization is not an inevitable, irreversible trend. With the destruction of World War I, increasingly integrated global economic structures began to unravel, collapsing during the Great Depression of the early 20th century. Our more recent era of globalization faces two major threats -...
Can terrorism throw sands in the wheels of trade? Enlarged image
The pundits writing about globalization sometimes call it inevitable, but historians remind us that there was an earlier period about a century ago when economic globalization (1...
Governments have long encouraged minimal or no taxation in free trade zones and freeports to encourage commerce and economic activity, and the concept of secure warehouses for luxury goods in transit began with the Geneva Freeport in the late 19th century. Such complexes expand worldwide as...
The art of hiding: An Etruscan sarcophagus stored by a shell company in a Swiss freeport was later returned to Italy; museums can warehouse treasures, too (Source: New York Times, AP)
SAN FRANCISCO: An archipelago of tax-free storage facilities...
Surrogacy Bill 2019 may cripple an industry that has flourished in India since 2002. “The stringent bill under consideration bans all forms of commercial surrogacy, stating that women who agree to carry babies to delivery as surrogates must agree to do so for ‘altruistic’ reasons and must be ‘close...
It’s complicated: Cross-border arrangements, monetary payments and inequality add complications to parenthood; India continues tightening restrictions on commercial surrogacy that once allowed women to carry children for parents like Phil Copland...
In their single-minded pursuit of economic growth and wealth, human beings could be collectively working themselves out of a home. Human activities systematically degrade the water, air and other surroundings that sustain life. The problem is not with pending shortages of resources, argues systems...
Hummer and Man: Our single-minded search for wealth and luxury may leave us in deep water. (© Debbie Campoli, YaleGlobal). Enlarged image
STOCKHOLM: Man – supposedly the most intelligent creature of a species-rich biosphere – has collectively...
Networks of trade contribute to peaceful relations among nations, but Europe, China and the United States are finding themselves in a challenging love triangle. Increasing US antagonism on trade may move other economies closer together, explains Xueying Zhang, a 2018-2019 Fox Fellow at Yale...
Big FDI trades: China has led with foreign direct investment in Europe, including takeovers of firms like Germany’s KUKA robotics; President of the European Council Donald Tusk, left, and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker welcome...
