Intellectual property like pharmaceutical patents is part of the story why so many people face a long wait for COVID-19 vaccines says Dean Baker...
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Allied with landlords and monopolists, the finance sector is extracting economic rents from the economy that’s impoverishing US government, industry...
The governments of India and South-Africa backed by about 100 countries and counting are calling for a waiver on patents over COVID-19 related...
Public interest led innovation in renewable energy is urgently needed. The financial sector is deeply compromised and cannot be relied upon to invest...
Peter Drahos’ Survival Governance: Energy and Climate in the Chinese Century shows why US corporate-centric strategies, from shale...
Deborah James on why we need to pay attention to proposed changes in global rules. Amid our pressing concerns with health and economic recovery, Big...
Jan Kregel explains the fundamental problem with the economic system is its focus on providing finance to investors. Hyman Minsky, who understood...
Prabhat Patnaik reflects on the COVID-19 shock that has worsened the crisis triggered by globalized finance. Only two possibilities emerge:...
Robert Pollin advocates a macroeconomic agenda centered on full employment. The decades long neoliberal attack on the working class is heightened...
Heiner Flassbeck shows it defies macroeconomic logic to promote surpluses for Germany, prohibit government deficits everywhere else and forbid the...
Richard Kozul-Wright explains why these challenges need to be addressed at once in a transformative agenda. The COVID-19 crisis shows that funding...
Jürgen Kaiser, debt expert, reminds us of the agreement that helped Germany after WWII to avert a debt trap and calls for a bankruptcy code for...
According to Prof Jayati Ghosh, this is the greatest crisis experienced by the capitalist system; she lays out the direction of policy responses...
The coronovirus pandemic exposes the consequences of taking the neoliberal road decades ago, explains Prof Radhika Desai. She discusses the failures...
The global economic crisis unfolding from the Covid-19 pandemic will once again imperil African countries with the usual mix of commodity export...
Richard Kozul-Wright, chief economist of UNCTAD, explains what a Global Green New Deal is about: end austerity, redistribute income, change the...
Transform the economy by subordinating the international financial system to the authority of elected democratic governments and a managed transition...
“This public-private partnership will permanently associate the UN with transnational corporations, some of whose essential activities have...
The neoliberal trap the Modi government finds itself in is not just an Indian phenomenon, says India’s eminent economist C.P. Chandrasekhar who...
Taking the example of cab-hailing app Uber, the Director of IT for Change says that we will need to go to the heart of what a digital economy is and...
A historic launchpad for neoliberal globalization, global elites once again embrace the World Trade Organization. This time as a “coalition of the...
South Africa hosts an event unpacking a WTO ECommerce initiative that far from delivering on a promise of ‘ECommerce for Development’ would deepen...
Marking the 75 year anniversary of the ILO’s Declaration of Philadelphia, we explore this historic Bill of Rights through the lens of Alain Supiot...
To mark the 100 year centenary of International Labor Organization and the 75 year anniversary of the Declaration of Philadelphia, we present the...
The alarming rise of poverty in the UK is deliberate – and so too in the US – says Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme...
The process of globalization has reached a stage where transnational corporate driven governance systems are displacing democracy and nation-states...
No stakeholder-based global governance system comes close to matching the democratic legitimacy of a citizen-based and nation-state-based governance...
Responses like xenophobia, nationalism and populism are not going to resolve existential threats, says Roberto Savio, explaining why he thinks...
If Africa as a continent does not have strategic objectives of its own, the history of impediments to African economic development will be repeated...
Big Tech is reinventing colonialism in the digital era and centralized control of the internet is at the root of current problems – like...