Andrea F. Schuman is an interdisciplinary social scientist with a primary interest in social policy and public health and education. Current activities and research projects emphasize the creation and maintenance of sustainable lives and livelihoods for excluded sectors of the population. Under this broad umbrella, she studies transnational agriculture and trade policy, migration/immigration/return migration, intercultural communication in education and health settings, and the development of economic alternatives. Andrea Schuman is the Director of the Centro de Estudios Científicos y Sociales (Center for Scientific and Social Studies) in Mexico.
Policy Making in a Globalized World: Is Economic Growth the Appropriate Driver?
Surely emphasis on increasing well-being should prevail over creation of investment opportunities that bring negative externalities and few benefits to the municipality. Other worlds are possible, and responsive policy making would be a chance to shape those possibilities.
October 31, 2017