"How can we work on time frames? The political scale is somehow not the good one in many projects. Although politicians have to prove the efficiency of their policies, it usually takes more than 3 to 5 years to reach the goal. We have to focus on ...
The fact that we make mistakes and still aren't able to learn from those mistake is inevitable. Every couple of years the market has to get clean and sometimes this results in a crisis. Just because some European Countries and Japan think that the...
During the past few days, media’s headlines were saying that some European countries, Japan etc. were getting out of the recession.
Thus, how shall we strengthen our economies? Each time we do think we’re going to learn from our past mistakes, alt...
It is legitimate because the resources of organic local producers does not exist. Either make a deal with the local farmers to have them become organic, meanwhile using the organic producer from afar. When you do switch to the local producer, you ...
How to legitimate an option? Local economic development or Environmental issues?
When working on local development projects, you tend to use local resources, providers and companies in order to sustain the local area. The aim is to strengthen the...
Small scales renewable energy technologies (RET) seem to be a real solution to provide energy in developing countries, especially in off grid areas.
Providing those technologies have many impacts like CO2 emissions and climate change, health and ...
Middlemen tend to facilitate access to different markets for producers in developing countries. They do as well provide credit facilities, smoother the value chain etc… Although they are needed because of the lack of integration of some countries/...
It is indeed a fact we all know, why acting abroad when you have your own issues to solve. As said, we have to dig deeper to underline the different relationships and so what is the most urgent and “valuable”. Neo-liberal is still remaining and wi...
When talking about MDGs, we are dealing with poverty, diseases and health in general, parity, communities, food, education, global partnership and environmental issues. By economic downturn I believe you mean "no more finance available or less".
I...
As you live in California, you could link forestry management and biomass fuel through the heating system using technologies like "wood chips" or "wood chunk".
You can describe both technologies, explain which one is more suitable for small or lar...
As you live in the UK, you're eligible to EU grand Leonardo for internships through the EU. Try a 6 month internship at the EC and it's £900 a month.
If you're planning to go to the US, they usually cover your cost of living (it's worth paying for...
Hi John,
My first and only advice would be to do a few internships during your vacations in order to have a better overview of the different fields within economics that you could specialized in. A master in Environmental Economics (mine!) or dev...
Hi Ramon,
It's a pretty interesting issue. I'm just quite not sure why you've chosen limited resources (coal or iron).
How about a paper regarding forestry? It seems to be a great resource, renewable, manageable, with many other outputs like loc...
Hi Amanda,
Like John, I don't really get the meaning of "economic phenomenon". I may have few topics for you though.
We're talking a lot about MDG (Millenium Development Goals), so how about writing an essay regarding microcredit/microfinance an...