Quality of life is high in Perth, but as Jake Elson, 21, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Bunbury in Australia writes, unchecked growth and poor planning could threaten that status. Perth has been ranked the eighth most liveable city by The Economist’s intelligence Unit – a list dominated by other major Australian and Canadian cities[1]. It …
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Dhaka makes the list of unlivable cities, but Abdullah Al Hasan, 24, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Dhaka in Bangladesh, argues that better transportation could move the city into a better rating. Every year, when the rankings of unlivable cities of the world are released, Bangladeshi people sadly look for Dhaka’s name on the list. Yes, …
Infrastructure is regarded as a prerequisite for sustainable and balanced economic growth in any economy, writes Naim Ebna Rahman, 20, a Correspondent from Dhaka in Bangladesh, who looks at how Bangladesh is facing that issue. Bangladesh is approaching healthy economic growth, estimated at more than seven per cent within the next five years, and the transport …
Transportation facilitates trade, writes Aura Whittier, 17, a Correspondent from San Juan, Trinidad. Trade exists within, between and among economies, yet none of this is possible without transportation. It is no secret that the transportation systems in most Caribbean islands are inadequate. While citizens do complain, and governments do sometimes try to address the issue, not …
Rhetoric around the benefits of diversification of revenue and industrialisation of African economies is in vogue for reports, conferences and television shows, writes Samasi Anderson, 21, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Bayelsa State, Nigeria, but implementation has been slow to unfold. What we hear proposed are implementable, theoretical foundational approaches to the diversification of revenue source and industrialisation …
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