A presentation to European Exploration Workshop, Edinburgh, on realistic expectations, and past and future visions of space exploration.

Human beings are a marvel of evolved complexity. Such systems can be difficult to enhance. When we manipulate complex evolved systems which are poorly understood, our interventions often fail or back

In March 2006, we published a report highlighting the rapid growth and increasing global significance of what we called 'E7' emerging economies:China,India,Brazil,Russia,Mexico,Indonesia and Turkey.B

Presents statistics and analysis on the status of women and men in the world, highlighting the current situation and changes over time. Analyses are based mainly on statistics from international and

Given the central role young people played in the post election violence in 2007,the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA-Kenya) sought to understand the state of youth in Kenya and explore the politic

This study is based on the 2002 and prior trends in Zimbabwe: Economic, Political, Finanacial, Legal etc.

The Policy Voices Series highlights instances of personal achievement with wider implications for policy makers in Africa. In publishing these case stories,Africa Research Institute seeks to identify

Competition is heating up in emerging markets as more and more local companies innovate rather than rely on low costs to attract customers. Not only are emerging countries investing a higher proporti

Scenario planning is a business management technique that can help us to think about the future of globalization and so enable us to be better prepared for it.The future cannot be predicted with any

A guide to foresight practice.