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FEB 23, 2016 • Article
Defining the Undefinable: Gender in Developed Nations
"I yearn to live in a society where we can be ourselves without prejudice," writes Se Bin Ahn, a South Korean student. "It is therefore ...
FEB 23, 2016 • Article
Goals for a Better World: Taking Urgent Action to Combat Climate Change in the United States within the Next 15 Years
American student Annabelle Dunbar advocates for the United States and its citizens to begin a transition towards more ecologically and economically sustainable ways of living ...
FEB 23, 2016 • Article
The Making of Sustainable India
"Sustainable development will not be easy. Yet, it is an unavoidable responsibility that is achievable with better planning, stronger policies, and effective execution," writes Indian ...
FEB 23, 2016 • Article
Measures for Nigeria to Reach the Objective "Make Cities and Human Settlements Inclusive, Safe, Resilient, and Sustainable" in the Next 15 Years
"I have always seen my dear country as the proverbial elephant up a tree: I do not understand how come it got there, but I ...
FEB 22, 2016 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Claire Nouvian, Guardian of the Deep
French environmentalist Claire Nouvian has devoted her life to protecting a resource that is largely a mystery to most of us: the deep sea.
FEB 22, 2016 • Article
Ethics in Online Activism: False Senses of Social Action or Effective Source of Change?
"There is a growing skepticism of whether or not sectors of online activism are more self-interested than socially interested," writes Rimah Jaber. When and how ...
FEB 16, 2016 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Reprivatized Womanhood: Changing Gender Discourse in Contemporary Urban China
Urban Chinese women face mounting challenges in the contemporary era of "reprivatized womanhood." But it was not always that way.
FEB 11, 2016 • Article
The Need for Ethical Grounding in Social Activism: A Banker's Perspective of the Occupy Movement
Why did the Occupy Movement, that should have resonated with 99 percent of the population, lack the support to achieve the changes that it sought?
FEB 11, 2016 • Article
Tokyo's Ambition Generation
Despite a host of cultural and structural difficulties, Japanese business culture is slowly becoming more welcoming to start-ups, writes Carnegie Council Senior Fellow Devin Stewart ...
FEB 10, 2016 • Article
What Does Singapore Owe its Migrant Workers?
In Tuas View, an industrial neighborhood in Singapore, migrant workers have little reason to leave their buildings. They live in a 15,000 square foot dormitory, where ...