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Interview with a Trader: Ghost in the Machine

President Jacob Zuma addresses Lonmin miners, 22 Aug 2012. Photo by GovernmentZA via Flickr. In September 2011, city trader Alessio Rastani sparked a familiar outpouring of vitriol and bile on the...

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All hail Google

Net Neutrality protest at Google HQ. Photo by Steve Rhodes via Flickr. Heads up! In case you haven’t noticed Google has become a significant player in how we live our lives from one day to the next....

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Valuing the Pearl

Hong Kong citizens take to the streets. Photo by Remko Tanis via Flickr Anti-mainland sentiment continues to brew in Hong Kong as locals call for the democratic reforms outlined in the Basic Law, Hong...

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The Economics of Education

Singapore Management University: One of the universities caught up in the government’s quota debates. Photo by erwinsoo via Flickr University degrees are a strange commodity. They don’t surge in value...

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Protestation Evaluation

Occupy London: The crowds and tents which used to occupy the space in front of St Paul’s no longer carry the same influence. Photo by sugarmelon.com via Flickr. The Occupy movement was off to a good...

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Water, Food Security and the Challenges of the Fashion Industry

Cotton farmers in South India. Photo by jankie via Flickr. Will fashion cause food scarcity? This is one of the many questions that The Guardian has been trying to answer in its highly popular...

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The true price of parliament

69% of MPs feel a pay rise is justified. Photo by RS Deakin via Flickr. Those who ply their trade within Westminster remain among the most beleaguered parliamentarians in the world today. In a...

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Dumb justice

Justice, though always blind, has become dumb too. Photo by The Mirror. “To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.” Magna Carta, the constitutional document that founded this...

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The gender bias of neoliberal policies

Programme lending (PL) by international financial institutions (IFIs), such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB), was introduced in the late 1970s to stimulate developing...

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Finding the right data for development – the challenge of intangible capital

Finding the right data for development – the challenge of intangible capital As we begin 2015, the year the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expire, development is increasingly about...

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