GLOCALblog

On November, 25th, Glocal hosted a meeting with a delegation from the University of Sumatra Utara (USU), Indonesia to explore opportunities for international academic collaborations in research and education, especially on the issues related to the natural environment and socio-economic diversity governance in North Sumatra, Indonesia.

I had the great opportunity of attending onsite the Asian Borderland Research Network (ABRN) Conference, Borderland Futures: Technologies, Zones and Co-existence. It was organized by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and Reconciliation and Coexistence in Contact Zones (RCZZ) at Chung Ang University (Seoul, Korea) on 23-26 June.

Venetian, young and farming: three lessons from the new generation of Italian farmers on agri-food sustainability

Glocal Hotspot brings together scholars analysing central contemporary phenomena with a critical lens and emphasising global-local interactions. We support open scientific discussion across fields, and support research on all levels. In November 2020, we have announced the first round of Glocal Master Thesis prize. It is our pleasure to announce that the winner of the 2019-20 GLOCAL Master Thesis Prize is: Paschalina Garidou with her thesis “Refugee Crisis and the EU External Border Regime: The Greek Case”.

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable and have a decent standard of living. Published most years since 1990, the HDI has become UNDP’s flagship indicator and is now one of the reference indicators to assess countries’ socio-economic development.

Disaggregation of indicators at the subnational level is one of the key elements to effectively monitor the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the same time, this is a great challenge, as in the case for many countries, only indicators at the national level are available.

Over the past few decades, household surveys have become an important source of information on educational outcomes in low and middle income countries. These surveys enable many factors associated with unequal educational outcomes within countries to be studied. The World Inequality Database on Education (WIDE), established by the EFA Global Monitoring Report team, shows what is possible with survey data, revealing within-country disparities in educational outcomes between key social groups according to gender, ethnicity, religion, location, region and household wealth.