It's been 3 weeks of scouring through child sponsorship websites and I'm starting to feel weird about all this.
Asian welfare states
There's been a surge
in labour movements in Asia’s three biggest countries - China, India and
Indonesia - and these activities appear to point towards a change in state-society relationships in
this part of the world. Indian
had a two day Bharat Bandh (a nationwide strike) in February this year, Indonesia’s in October cost 1
trillion rupiah ($104 million), while China saw a 40% and 160% annual
increase in labor protests in Guangdong and Zhejiang respectively. The pressure does seem
to be on Asian governments to pad welfare systems.
Back
It's been a long hiatus, tout le monde. A hiatus from writing, from thinking about problems and solutions, from having focus, and also a hiatus from myself really. So what's been brewing?
Mothering
My ultimate goal in life is to be a good mother. This may
sound disappointingly anti-climatic to many. Some might ask, so all that
schooling I'm still doing is simply in preparation for dealing with
soiled diapers and teenage tantrums? If I were not liable to color things as I
often do, then the simple answer is yes, for me, all roads lead to diapers and
fits.
Knowledge, Ideas and Gender Gaps in the Process of Globalization
I'm taking a fantastic class in
Sciences Po taught by Ian Goldin, director of the Oxford Martin School in the
University of Oxford. Goldin fought the apartheid in his earlier days and then
moved on to fantastically important jobs in development - from the holding
directorships in the EBRD, OECD to being vice president of the World Bank. Oh,
and he also advised Nelson Mandela. Fancy titles aside, Goldin's classes, which
is on globalization and international economics and development and yada yada,
have been the easiest 4 hour lectures to sit through because we get to hear the
uncolored opinions of where the world is heading by an experienced and
intelligent man who somehow hasn't become jaded by bureaucracy, poverty and the
generally dismal state of things.
Filler post
I will post once again by Sunday. Until then microsoft word is my greatest enemy & coffee is my best friend - you get the idea.
To entertain you and perhaps provoke some of them thoughts:
To entertain you and perhaps provoke some of them thoughts:
The Profits and Perils of Self-expression
Adam has invented something new. He has invented tomorrow. You will invent things everyday now that the burden of immortality has been lifted from you.
- George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
And so it begins
Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
―
Martin Luther King Jr.
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