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decisions

Making decisions: a superhuman difficulty

Human beings face several needs on a daily basis: eating, clothing, expressing ourselves, feeling achieved… Many of these are actually born from a greater need, the one of deciding. We are constantly forced

  • SABF Blog Admin
    SABF Blog Admin
3 min read
femicides

#NotAWomanLess

Dear reader, I invite you to reflect just one moment with me. Have you been watching the news this week? What do you say about the past month? Many things have happened: the

  • Sofía Fraga
    Sofía Fraga
3 min read
companies

The secret for survival in any organization

Are you interested in knowing why some organizations last and others don’t? For an organization, whatever its nature, to exist and reach its objectives, it is necessary to fulfill a minimal level

  • Emiliano Dominguez
2 min read
cooperation

5 News Stories we all want to read

… and who knows how much longer till they make the headlines: The last person with HIV was cured Earthquake in Bangladesh: no fatal victims Latin America: first in the rankings of Government Transparency

  • Ana Paula Valacco
2 min read
Inclusión

The challenge of inclusion: a city for all?

The Porteños (citizens of the City of Buenos Aires) are currently immersed in electoral activity. The superficial proposals abound. The simplistic criticism too. Isn’t is time to ask ourselves in which kind

  • Emiliano Dominguez
6 min read
poverty

Inclusion, there isn't just one

I must confess the word inclusion has caused certain apprehension in me. There is a top-down component that assumes as a basis a better reality (its own) versus the other one, which they

  • Ana Paula Valacco
3 min read
Opinion

The (in)human being

Many times we live without thinking about what it means. The vast majority lives a repetitive set of days, 5 working days and 2 days to rest from the working days. And, if

  • SABF Blog Admin
    SABF Blog Admin
3 min read
Democracy

South America, that phenomenon - Part 2

When we talked the other day about South America, we mentioned a basic thesis that somehow allows us to understand the socio-political reality of the subcontinent. We mentioned some institutional factors that were

  • Ana Paula Valacco
3 min read
Society

Saving lives: would you do it? Explaining a world without donors

Denmark had a grave problem. Being a highly developed country, educated and with life quality levels that any other country would envy, its citizens were dying every day due to the lack of

  • Jorge Lubiano
4 min read
economy

We are imprisoned by the bolivar

When the Venezuelan bolivar is called “strong”, it is no longer because of its promised – and never achieved – sturdiness and stability; instead it seems today to be due to a fortification. The strong

  • Tulio Davila
2 min read
Latin America

South America, that phenomenon

A common origin, several attempts to constitute, a reality that repeats itself, amidst dichotomies, along the Andes and the marine line. In Latin America, and even more in the South region, the historical

  • Ana Paula Valacco
4 min read
economy

Economy, the science of a chessboard

During my 10 years of teaching courses on introductory economics, I take more time in defining what economy is/ the concept of economy. I remember that the first years, as soon as the

  • Alexis Poet
4 min read
cooperativity

Do we ally or do we alienate with each other?

We live in times in which humanity seems to be moving to the tune of “every man for himself”, and where selfishness as an anti-value often prevails over camaraderie, solidarity and love for

  • Hector Martinez
3 min read
education

Hunger didn't Go to School

In any basic Introduction to Law course it is explained why the norms that rule our life exist (laws, decrees, ordinances, provisions, etc.). And even if you study landscaping, engineering or medical imaging,

  • SABF Blog Admin
    SABF Blog Admin
3 min read
human rights

Our labour rights or "Maybe Orwell wasn't so wrong"

Postmodernism. Since the first Industrial Revolution, a lot of things have changed. The Game’s Rules are quickly changing day by day. This is so, that the circumstances our parents had to deal

  • Lucia Martinez
4 min read
economy

What are the implications of socio-environmental business’s responsibility?

We are living unstable times under permanent change where everything seems to be disposable and instantaneous. We are living fast, avoiding the obligations of what’s permanent. This last, that we can observe

  • Christopher Kiessling
2 min read
economy

Enterprise: from utility to common wealth

The mobilizations throughout the world in 2011 have certainly set a precedent that will remain in the history of the beginning of the XXI Century. From the outraged from Spain, Occupy Wall Street,

  • Ignacio Urbina
4 min read
Citizen Participation

Creativity: born or made?

We live in a hyper connected world, constantly bombarded with all kind of information, amazed by technology advances and knowledge increasingly decentralized. Don’t you think it is hard to believe that some

  • Guadalupe Casas
2 min read
Argentina

On walls and windmills

*Since today it’s the international labour day, we’ve invited María Lasa, ex-SABF participant to write a reflexion on this day. * An anonymous quote says that “when the wind of change blow,

  • SABF Blog Admin
    SABF Blog Admin
2 min read
economy

Thinking Latin America Today

Analía Gómez Vidal was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1989. She studied Economics (specializes in Journalism) in Torcuato Di Tella University. Currently, she is pursuing a Master in Economics in the same

  • SABF Blog Admin
    SABF Blog Admin
7 min read
Climate Change

UN General Assembly declares access to clean water and sanitation is a human right

Only a few days ago, … “Safe and clean drinking water and sanitation became a human right essential to the full enjoyment of life and all other human rights” (Read more) Finally, after debates,

  • SABF Blog Admin
    SABF Blog Admin
2 min read
ICISTS

ICISTS-KAIST 2009

The 2009 Edition of the “International Conference for the Integration of Science and Technology into Society” (ICISTS) will be held in South Korea from August 20 to August 23, 2009. ICISTS-KAIST is a

  • SABF Blog Admin
    SABF Blog Admin
1 min read
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