Globalisation

Oil Lubricates Equatorial Guinea’s Entry into Portuguese Language Community

By Mario Queiroz
Evidently, oil talked louder. By unanimous resolution, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) admitted Equatorial Guinea as a full member, in spite of the CPLP’s ban on dictatorial regimes and the death penalty.

Human Development Report Finds South Asia’s Poor on a Knife’s Edge

By Amantha Perera
Millions still live in poverty and even those who have gained the security of the middle-income bracket could relapse into poverty due to sudden changes to their economic fortunes in South Asia, the latest annual Human Development Report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) revealed.

Touaregs Seek Secular and Democratic Multi-Ethnic State

By Karlos Zurutuza
The government of Mali and Touareg rebels representing Azawad, a territory in northern Mali which declared unilateral independence in 2012 after a Touareg rebellion drove out the Malian army, resumed peace talks in Algiers last week, intended to end decades of conflict.

BRICS – The End of Western Dominance of the Global Financial and Economic Order

By Shyam Saran
The sixth BRICS Summit which has just ended in Brazil marks the transition of a grouping based hitherto on shared concerns to one based on shared interests.

Spain: A Precarious Gateway to Europe for Syrian Refugees

By Inés Benítez
Little Samir covers his face with his hands as he plays under the orange tree in the centre of the inner courtyard of the Spanish Refugee Aid Commission (CEAR) centre in the southern city of Malaga. He is four years old and has spent nearly a year in Spain, where he arrived with his parents, fleeing the war in Syria.

International Reform Activists Dissatisfied by BRICS Bank

By Mario Osava
The creation of BRICS’ (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) own financial institutions was “a disappointment” for activists from the five countries, meeting in this northeastern Brazilian city after the group’s leaders concluded their sixth annual summit here.

BRICS Forges Ahead With Two New Power Drivers – India and China

By Shastri Ramachandaran
The Sixth BRICS Summit which ended Wednesday in Fortaleza, Brazil, attracted more attention than any other such gathering in the alliance’s short history, and not just from its own members – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

North’s Policies Affecting South’s Economies

By Yilmaz Akyüz
Since the onset of the crisis, the South Centre has argued that policy responses to the crisis by the European Union and the United States has suffered from serious shortcomings that would delay recovery and entail unnecessary losses of income and jobs, and also endanger future growth and stability. 

OPINION: Why Asia-Europe Relations Matter in the 21st Century

By Shada Islam
Hopes are high that the 10th Asia-Europe Meeting – or ASEM summit – to be held in Milan on October 16-17 will confirm the credibility and relevance of Asia-Europe relations in the 21st century.

Europe and the United States, Allies in Crisis

By Joaquín Roy
A few decades ago, even before the end of the Cold War and before and after Ronald Reagan’s election to the White House, analyses regularly referred to U.S. decadence. At other times, it was Europe’s turn for pessimistic descriptions, especially when it could not overcome its ambivalence over deepening integration, and above all because of the failure of its constitutional project. 

Ever Wondered Why the World is a Mess?

By Roberto Savio
While the Third World War has not been formally declared, conflicts throughout the world are reaching levels unseen since 1944.

Macau Gambling Away Its Future

By Martin Murphy
Macau’s gaming boom just keeps on giving. Gambling revenues soared to a new high of 45 billion dollars last year, a whopping 18.6 percent rise over 2012 and the city’s sixth straight year of record earnings.

Cambodian Migrant Workers Pay for Thai Documentation Scramble

By Michelle Tolson
Eight people, three women and five men, are crouched in the dirt in the center of a roundabout where the main road at Poipet --a major Cambodia border town-- merges with the check point to Thailand. Dust swirls in the wind as they squint their eyes at the sun. Others playing the waiting game mill about on the road’s edges.

Africa Under “Unprecedented” Pressure from Rich Countries Over Trade

By Ravi Kanth Devarakonda
African countries are coming under strong pressure from the United States and the European Union to reverse the decision adopted by their trade ministers to implement the World Trade Organization’s trade facilitation agreement on a “provisional” basis.

Inequality Blocks Path to “Gold” in Latin America

By A. D. McKenzie
Inequality, poor infrastructure and declining trade are some of the problems that Latin America needs to overcome if the region truly wishes to achieve a “golden age”, according to Peru’s President Ollanta Humala.

Looking to Africa’s LDCs to Learn How to Save the Lives of Millions of Mothers and their Babies

By Nqabomzi Bikitsha
Every year, three million newborn babies and almost 6.6 million children under five die globally, but if the rest of the world looked towards the examples of two of Africa's least-developed countries (LDCs), Rwanda and Ethiopia, they would perhaps be able to save these children.

U.S. Reaction to New Immigrant Influx Could Violate International Law

By Michelle Tullo
Rights advocates and lawmakers are expressing increased concern over the United States’ handling of the sudden influx of tens of thousands of undocumented child and female migrants from Central America.

Higher Food Prices Can Help to End Hunger, Malnutrition and Food Waste

By Andrew MacMillan
The choice of foods displayed on supermarket shelves can be quite bewildering. This abundance encourages us to take it for granted that we will always be able to buy the food we want at affordable prices.

IT and Internet Offer Possibilities of Overcoming Blockade in Gaza

By Khaled Alashqar
"After graduating, I joined the thousands of other graduates on the list of the unemployed. Then I read about a project that offers a technology incubator for youth projects, applied, was accepted and now I’m no longer on that list!

U.S. Turns Attention to Ocean Conservation, Food Security

By Michelle Tullo
A first-time U.S.-hosted summit on protecting the oceans has resulted in pledges worth some 800 million dollars to be used for conservation efforts.

Argentina Once More on the Map, Invited by BRICS

By Fabiana Frayssinet
As Argentina starts to mend fences with the international financial markets, the emerging powers that make up the BRICS bloc invited it to their next summit. This could be a step towards this country’s reinsertion in the global map, after its ostracism from the credit markets since the late 2001 debt default.
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