Some of the worst performing currencies of the year include the Turkish lira and the Argentinean peso, declining by 52 and 37 per cent respectively against the US dollar. In the past year, this acute depreciation of currencies from developing countries has become the norm rather than the exception, and the effects of this phenomena
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This week, on Thursday 13 December, Room for Discussion will host an interview under the title “Zorg: een gezonde markt?” – Healthcare: a healthy market? The interview will be held in Dutch and the guests are Georgette Fijneman, CEO of the insurer Zilveren Kruis, and Ernst van Koesveld, director of Healthcare Insurances at the Ministry
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Since the beginning of the 1950’s China’s population exploded. Starting from roughly 500 million, the number of inhabitants almost tripled to 1.4 billion people. Putting it into perspective, this is more than North America, Australia, and Europe combined have. Policy makers in the 1970`s knew that this strong economic growth will lead to an overpopulation
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This week, Room for Discussion will be hosting two guests – Nora Neuteboom, the economist for ABN Amro along with Macro and International Economics Professor Sweder van Wijnbergen from the University of Amsterdam – on a very relevant current issue: Turmoil in Emerging Currencies. According to IGA Global, developing countries are defined as the ones with low
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Almost a month ago, on October 31st, Jordan Peterson was a guest at Room for Discussion at the University of Amsterdam. It is probably the biggest event Room for Discussion has held since its inception, and sparked controversy inside and outside UvA. The only thing Peterson’s followers and opponents seem to agree upon, is to
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A Review of The Second Sex
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman”, argues Simone de Beauvoir in her magnum opus, The Second Sex. Womanhood as a social and cultural construct seems obvious today, but back in 1949, when the book was published, her ideas were rated highly controversial. As a matter of fact, the Vatican put The Second
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