Globalisation

The Role of the State in Developing Countries under Attack from New FTAs

By Martin Khor
Two new trade agreements involving the two economic giants, the United States and the European Union, are leading a charge against the role of the state in the economy of developing countries.

Revenge Rises From Sinai

By Hisham Allam
The violence in Cairo came amidst firm indications that Muslim Brotherhood members hit back after a brutal crackdown this week that left many hundreds dead. And the winds of retaliation have blowing in from the Sinai peninsula, the desert to the east.

Linking Fair and SQUAR in Myanmar

By Sudeshna Sarkar
What’s less than two months old, has hit the headlines globally, and has more than 79,000 ‘likes’ and over 16,000 people talking about it?

Mongolia Wrestles with Dutch Disease Dilemma

By Pearly Jacob
Ochir Damchaa chuckles as he drives his second-hand Toyota sedan through the alleyways of Nalaikh, a ramshackle town 35 kilometres east of Ulaanbaatar: “There’re just two kinds of jobs here: drive a taxi, or dig coal.”

Freeing Prisoners, at a Price

By Pierre Klochendler
Standing in front of the makeshift memorial corner of his deceased children that he arranged in the room , Tzion Swery says to himself, “How ironical that we mark the 12th anniversary of their death on Tuesday just as Israel starts releasing Palestinian prisoners.”

Ivory Course Runs From Africa to Malaysia to China

By Baradan Kuppusamy
A distance of nearly 9,000 kilometres separates Malaysia from Africa, but that hasn’t stopped the Southeast Asian nation from becoming a key staging post in the illegal trade of ivory from Africa to China.

Seeking More Indian Business, With Chinese Help

By Amantha Perera
As he stood on the westernmost edge of Colombo’s new harbour expansion, it was hard for Priyath Bandu Wickrema - the man tasked with reinventing the port as a regional giant - to cap his enthusiasm.

Global Value Chains from a Development Perspective

By Aileen Kwa
The current discourse on Global Value Chains by key proponents and also the World Trade Organisation (WTO) secretariat is that developing countries should liberalise - in goods and services - and conclude a trade facilitation agreement.

Interpol ‘Misused’ by Human Rights Abusers

By Ida Karlsson
The world's largest international policing organisation Interpol is being used by governments to track down political opponents and human rights campaigners, an IPS investigation reveals.

Making Peace with Our Futures

By Johan Galtung
Future studies, like peace-development-environment studies, is an interdisciplinary, international effort to get a grip on key issues, divided into ‘preferred futures’ – utopias – whose?; ‘predicted futures’ – forecasting – who does it, for whom?; and ‘future practice’ – scenarios bending the predicted toward the preferred – by and for whom?

Economists’ Fantasies, Planetary Nightmares

By Hazel Henderson
While debating a high frequency trader recently, I encountered the familiar rationalisations that high frequency trading (HFT) contributes to liquidity and price discovery in markets. Assertions about liquidity are hard to justify after the “flash crash” of May 6, 2010, where the “faux liquidity” of HFT disappeared when needed and the traditional market-making obligations of the old specialists were absent.

Brazil Wide Open to Cyber Invasion

By Fabiana Frayssinet
Brazil, reportedly one of the main targets of U.S. signals spying, is attempting to untangle a web of hi-tech espionage with low-tech equipment reminiscent of a novel by British author John le Carré.

Big Brother Is Watching Us

By Ignacio Ramonet
We were afraid this would happen. We had been warned by books (George Orwell's "1984") and films (Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report") that with the progress being made in communication technology, we would all end up under surveillance.

A New Bretton Woods, to Prevent Future Crises?

By Supachai Panitchpakdi
Almost five years have passed since the global financial crisis, and the world economy is still reeling from its consequences. The main reason for this is the continued stagnation in developed countries, which is adversely affecting economic dynamism in other regions.

Brazil Holds Key to Door Between Pacific Alliance and Mercosur

By Mario Osava
The Mercosur and Pacific Alliance blocs can strengthen Latin American integration rather than weaken it, analysts say.

The New Fascism

By Johan Galtung
The atrocious Second World War left behind lasting damage by lowering our standards for what is marginally acceptable.

If Not Quantitative Easing, Then What?

By Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho
It took world leaders some time to realise that the financial crisis initiated by the collapse of the subprime mortgage segment of U.S. financial markets in 2007 would not exhaust its effects in an ordinary recession.

Climate Change to Determine Economic Growth

By Amantha Perera
The Monetary Board of Sri Lanka’s Central Bank, tasked with keeping the island’s economy on an even keel, does not only keep tabs on exchange rates, gold prices and inflation – it also has an eye on a less obvious indicator of economic stability: water levels in the country’s main reservoirs.

Opponents Question Proposed Trans-Atlantic Trade Deal

By Jared Metzker
Controversy is building following the announcement that negotiations will soon begin on a free trade agreement between the United States and European Union, with critics warning that any such agreement could negatively affect a host of regulatory concerns.

Job Creation Looming Challenge for Post-2015 World

By Walter García and Lucy Westcott
In the aftermath of the global economic crisis and with three years to go until the 2015 deadline of the Millennium Development Goals, global leaders are struggling to formulate a post-2015 agenda that can address the widespread dilemmas of employment and inclusive growth.

Time for a Leap Forward for the European Union

By Pier Virgilio Dastoli
Three different models for regional unification have been proposed by the movement for European integration since its inception. One vision is a league of states that preserve national sovereignty while committing themselves to follow specific policies agreed by consensus.
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