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La guerra contra las drogas y el verdadero aprendizaje del Milagro de Medellín
"A mi ciudad no vuelve la violencia". Campaña del gobierno de Medellín Al finalizar 1991, la tasa de homicidios de la ciudad de Medellín, Colombia era sólo comparable con una zona de guerra: alrededor...
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El boom de lo local, “verde” y orgánico como oportunidad económica en...
También se puede leer este artículo en Lat_Am_Puede. Cambridge River Festival. Mercado organizado para microempresarios locales en Cambridge, Massachusetts, EE.UU. Periódicamente existen movimientos...
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How lack or poor infrastructure shapes inequality and poverty in...
Despite the thriving levels of growth of India’s economy in the last decade, the national levels of poverty and inequality are among the highest in the international ambit, and the country remains...
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Knitting a bus in Mexico City
Luis Flores Ballesteros My grand grand mother would be very excited about Magda Sayeg‘s work on a bus in Mexico City: more about “Video: Graffiti artist hits Mexico Ci…“, posted with vodpod Read more...
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You in a 100-people world
Luis Flores Ballesteros Many of us have seen a version of the 100-people world, for me, the one created by the Miniature Earth Project is the most complete (stats-wise) and best designed. It was...
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Today you…tomorrow me
Me robé esta historia del Reddit. Ocurrió en Estados Unidos y es tan espontánea como la cadena donde el autor la relata. Porque a veces los clichés funcionan. A veces los necesitamos más que nunca....
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La parte moral del daño de desastres naturales
En español suena raro–o por lo menos “moral hazard” suena menos forzado. El tema es que el daño moral es el factor más subestimado de la administración del riesgo de desastres naturales. En pocas...
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The Moral Side of Disasters
Moral hazard is the most underrated driver of natural disasters. We know that it exists almost in every policy instrument or private strategy for managing the risk of natural disasters. For more than...
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¿Y si pagaras por la cantidad de basura que produces?
Imagen por Manwithface (manwithface.com) Un enmascarado entra en un supermercado de la Ciudad de México. Clientes y trabajadores del lugar respiran, paran por un segundo. Revisan al nuevo integrante...
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Expanding the reach of financial services (via Global Development Network Blog)
The discussion held during the session, Financial Crisis and Financial Inclusion: What we know, and what can be done? shed light on potential alternatives for financing development in a post-crisis...
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Social standing
Cuando todo el grupo demuestra que no está listo, el que parecía relegado se levantará e inflamará de pasión a los demás. Tal vez…
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De vuelta
Busca la puerta trasera, que se ha convertido en la principal, y se va, se va.
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Expectations
After this night, she carries the dream of being an underdog for the rest of her life. Wait, stay outside the crowd, and run to win it all. Life is lighter.
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Yeah, we know the CNN effect, how about a Twitter effect?
The CNN effect was coined in the 1990s to identify the influence that real-time news coverage seems to exercise on international political decision-making and, particularly, on diplomacy and foreign...
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Business organizations increasing donation to disasters
It is common for national governments, multinational agencies and NGOs to take active roles in catastrophe relief and recovery; however, firms are emerging as major players in these activities....
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What firms, by country of origin, donate more frequently to disasters?
The graph shows how frequent a firm from a specific country of origin donates to disasters. The sample is the 2000 largest publicly-listed firms by total revenue (in 2012) and covers different types...
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How important is the media for disaster donation?
On a study of disaster donations to over 50 disasters in the last 10 years by the 2000 largest publicly-traded enterprises at the international level (total revenue in 2012), the evidence shows that...
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Chile, similarities and differences in the national response to the 2010 and...
A little over four years and two months after the 2010 disaster, on the night of April 1, an 8.2 earthquake struck Chile again. The contexts in which the two disasters occurred have a number of...
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Impact of disasters per type in the last 20 years
Distribution of hardship per type and subtype of disaster. Sample of 6,149 disasters in the period 1993-2013. Affected include people that have been injured (i.e., individuals suffering from physical...
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