On September 6th, 2015 elections in Guatemala took place for the presidency, congress, representatives and municipalities. The presidential elections coincided with congressional and municipal elections after the previous president, retired-general Otto Pérez Molina, stepped down from office due to protests against his administration and eventual imprisonment, along with vice president Roxana Baldetti. President and vice president were found guilty of corruption in “La Linea” lawsuit. Actor James Ernesto Morales Cabrera, best known as Jimmy Morales, won the...
Yannick Dupraz from the Paris School of Economics presented his paper “French and British Colonial Legacies in Education: A Natural Experiment in Cameroon” at the University of Navarra, a seminar organized by the Navarra Center for International Development.
As Yannick explained in the beginning of the presentation, both countries, France and England presented clear differences in their approach to colonization. According t...
While the related pressures of anthropogenic climate change and population growth will continue to make essential natural resources scarce globally, domestic and international policy has been slow to adapt to this threat. In Kenya, the issue of water rights is heating up rapidly as insufficient infrastructure and dwindling surface waters already leaves many underserved.
Despite the East African country relying economically on water resources, it is simply a water scarce nation. Roughly 90% of its total area is unsuitable for crop cultivation,