Articles

The problem of youth entrepreneurship in Latin America

Youth entrepreneurship is a vehicle for enhancing the employability and social mobility of young people, allowing also for social transformation. Latin America youth encounter many challenges that hinder their development and access to grow start-ups to mature firms.

An introduction to a comparative social & economic profile of the Americas

The sovereign states of the Americas comprise of 36 countries. For this profile they have been divided into 4 groups comprising of 3 in North America, 13 in the Caribbean, 7 in Central America and 12 in South America.

Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and clean energy

Humanity's appetite for energy dates to prehistoric times. Whether sustainable or not, today, every source of energy meets a real human need; however, not everyone on the planet enjoys the same level of energy supply to meet their basic needs. Many people suffer from energy poverty. This article by Rafael Jaen Williamson explores what it will take to achieve universal access to energy.

Thriving in a deeply unequal global landscape

Today, we live in a much more volatile, complex, ambiguous, and hyper-connected world than ever before. Diversity, of people with different social and ethnic backgrounds has been accelerated by globalization and is becoming an irreversible force shaping of modern society. Learning to live in this ever-changing context is one of the most important challenges societies are facing.