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January 17, 2018
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Este artículo fue publicado originalmente el 17 de noviembre de 2017 en la sección Planeta Futuro del diario El País. El autor es el investigador junior del Navarra Center for International Development David Soler Crespo. A continuación se reproduce parcialmente el artículo. Puede consultar el artículo original aquí.


La última noche de Halloween, en la que los occidentales se disfrazan para dar miedo y los niños piden dulces en las puertas, un chi...

January 16, 2018
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By the end of the 1920s three big U.S. companies dominated the car industry: General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. All of them were based in Detroit, which soon was nicknamed Motor City. By 1950, the U.S. produced three quarters of all cars in the world. And as vehicles became ubiquitous, gasoline consumption increased, pollution ensued…and violent crimes rose. In the 1950s, violent crime increased sharply and continued doing so until the early 1990s when it reached its peak. It was not until 1996 that scientists won their cause and crime rates began to decrease the following years:...

November 20, 2017
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In Nigeria, English is the official language. Thus, making it essential for education, documentation and communication in formal settings. Yet out of the 185 million people living in the country, about 70 million speak Hausa as a first language, 28 million use Yoruba as a mother language and there are 24 million Igbo native speakers. In total, there are over 520 languages spoken across Nigeria. “The bigger the diversity, the more difficult it is to reach a compromise, so the status-quo remains, the colonial language that imposes a high cost on its citizens,” said Dr. Rajesh Ramachandran...

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