No country for face masks: Nordics brush off mouth covers
As most of the world either orders or recommends the use of face masks, with even US president Donald Trump seen wearing one, Nordic nations are the remaining holdouts. In…
Hopes fade for swift NATO accession for Finland, Sweden
Finland and Sweden are to discuss their stalled NATO bids with Turkey in Brussels on Monday, but hopes are fading they will be able resolve their dispute before an alliance…
Catastrophic changes
When it comes to government spending, no amount of money is too much to prop up the American Empire. Spreading democracy abroad isn’t cheap. Never mind that our own democracy…
Best practices
Perhaps you have seen news stories about international studies that evaluate countries on their levels of happiness, equality, health, openness, freedom, opportunity, and being a good place to live. In…
Indonesia in 1998
Transformational change is not impossible. No matter what political party one supports or what views one has about various political personalities, there is consensus about one thing. The state of…
Understanding Neoliberalism
‘Neoliberalism is the defining political economic paradigm of our time – it refers to the policies and practices and processes whereby a relative handful of private interests are permitted to…
Human Capital Report 2017
Pakistan has been ranked almost at the bottom (125) of a list of 130 that were tested against four key areas of human capital development; Capacity, largely determined by past…
Development report
The Sustainable Development Report 2020 has been released and hotly debated among policy circles. However, many of the readers of the report know but little and they tend to quote…
Pakistanis among the happiest people?
The 'World's Happiest Nations Index' was released by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network for the United Nations on March 14 ahead of the March 20 World's Happiness Day. The report…
The dark side
Scandinavians have it all. Universal public healthcare and education that is the envy of the world. Reasonable working hours with plenty of paid vacation. They have some of the highest…
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