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Less poverty, higher life expectancy and a booming economy. How did Bolivia become a booming nation?

Bolivia, a country in the Andes, has developed strongly in recent years. Since the left-wing president Evo Morales took office, poverty in the country has been more than halved, life expectancy has risen by four years and the economy is…

Myanmar-Bangladesh railway connection provides benefits for the region.

To facilitate the travel of tourists from home and abroad to Cox’s Bazar, a rail communication network is supposed to develop along with air and road. The railway line from Dhaka to Chittagong is 320 kilometers long and 102 kilometers…

Scotland makes historic first ‘loss and damage’ payment to climate change-stricken Malawi

Scotland has become the first nation to provide ‘loss and damage’ funding having pledged a total of £7 million to date. The decision comes after an agreement between 200 nations at last year’s COP27 summit to give financial help to…

Universal Basic Income – a right, not charity

The Socialist Party of Catalonia has gone mad in its battle against basic income. No one would have thought that their bid against this proposal would be so obsessively opposed. Their belligerence against the pilot plan for basic income in…

Electricity sharing opens a new window for BBIN countries.

Today, challenges like climate change, pandemics, energy reliance, economic crisis, and many more are concerning us. No nation can overcome these obstacles without the assistance and collaboration of other nations. Most importantly, many of these problems have international repercussions. South…

How Unions Safeguard Workers’ Sweat Equity

Mark Glyptis and dozens of other union leaders went into contract negotiations with Cleveland-Cliffs in 2022 determined not only to win wage and benefit enhancements for their coworkers but also to protect thousands of family-sustaining steel mill jobs for years…

Faith in the dollar, in counterfeit money, will be destroyed”, they warn

“Everything will collapse, including gold, silver and bitcoin prices. Don’t panic,” they say Renowned US investor and author Robert Kiyosaki believes confidence in the US dollar “will be destroyed”, he said in a message posted on his official Twitter account…

U.S. Peace Council: It Is Time to Put an End to All Anti-Human Economic Sanctions!

Once again, the U.S. imperialism is showing its true face through its selective response to the disastrous earthquake that has taken the lives of tens of thousands of people and destroyed whole cities in Syria and Turkey. While countries like…

Neoliberal model, the trigger for an unprecedented crisis

The neoliberal model that reigns in the world has unleashed an unprecedented crisis, based on the excesses of extraction, production and consumption that exacerbate economic inequality and the overexploitation of resources and the force of work; for this reason, a…

Statement by the Schiller Institute on The Earthquakes in Turkey And Syria

The recent double earthquake in southern Turkey and northwestern Syria is a terrible disaster which is generating a wave of emotion and empathy from around the world. The situation will likely worsen due to forecast weather of extremely low temperatures…

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