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In this section, Amy Martin gives an account of the rebalances and constant paradoxes established between the local and the global world, in a society segregated between generators and consumers of “change”.
 
Throughout the observation and the de-prejudiced analysis of that change, Amy Martin tries to encourage the reader to promote and welcome progress with new, original ideas.En esta sección, Amy

Amy Martin - Global Observer

  • A woman’s place
    03.01.2012

    Last December The Economist the last online Economist debate of the year was on the following topic: “This house believes that a woman's place is at work” (“December Economist’s Debate” ) and, no matter how unbelievable, 53% voted NO.

  • Creativity and progress: how to legislate the Internet
    10.12.2011

    In late November 2011 the US Congress introduced a draft Bill intended to check the widespread theft of intellectual property on the Net, while in Spain the outgoing government of José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero chose not to complete the process of implementing an Act passed by Parliament ten months earlier and deferred ever since.

  • Emerging economies, diminishing democracies
    23.10.2011

    The relationship between democracy and economic growth has been at the center of political science research in the last 50 years. Empirical studies show mixed inconclusive evidence with respect to that relationship.

  • 30.05.2011

    By the year 2012 the 32 turbines of the Three Gorges Dam will work at their full capacity, and the great wall (1.3 miles-long and 610 feet-high) will finally contain the waters of the Yangtze River, at the heart of China. The Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydraulic project in history and another demonstration of China’s ability to undertake long and sizeable projects.