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Worldcrunch Magazine #117 — Madness!
Tag: policies
February 3 – February 9, 2025
The Iranian regime has been trying different methods to encourage people to have children. Most have failed, for economic reasons.
In India, questions related to menstrual health are largely taboo, and routinely ignored by authorities. Elsewhere in the world, there is some progress on the issue, though much more is needed.
Since Cuba reopened its borders last December after COVID closures, the number of people leaving the island has gone up significantly. Migration has been a constant in Cuban life since the 1950s. But this article in Cuba’s independent news outlet El Toque shows just how important migration is to understand the ordeals of everyday life on the island.
For all its resources, the South American country still struggles with high inflation and extreme poverty. The solution must be both deep and long-term changes.
It’s high-time for an economic model that curbs waste while boosting productivity. But don’t expect market forces alone to bring about the necessary shift.
AGADEZ — Mahamane Ousmane is an unrepentant people smuggler. He makes no effort to deny having transported migrants “countless times’ across the Sahara into Libya. When he is released from prison in Niger’s desert city of Agadez, he intends to return to the same work. The 32-year-old is even more adamant he has done nothing wrong. “I don’t like criminals. I am no thief. I have killed no one,” he says. As Ousmane speaks, a small circle of fellow inmates in filthy football shirts and flip-flops murmur in agreement. The prison at Agadez, where the French once stabled their horses […]
Mexico does not need more reforms. It needs a complete overhaul of the political system that was put in place a century ago.
Critics of both Nestor and Cristina Kirchner have focused on the “populist” nature of their hold on power. But to understand their rule, it may be wiser to follow the money.