According to Prof Jayati Ghosh, this is the greatest crisis experienced by the capitalist system; she lays out the direction of policy responses commensurate to what is needed. April 21 , 2020 Produced by Lynn...
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The coronovirus pandemic exposes the consequences of taking the neoliberal road decades ago, explains Prof Radhika Desai in discussing the failures of the Western capitalist system and the need to reorient our...
The global economic crisis unfolding from the Covid-19 pandemic will once again imperil African countries with the usual mix of commodity export crash and debt meltdown. It is time to recognize that under a...
Richard Kozul-Wright, chief economist of UNCTAD, explains what a Global Green New Deal is about: end austerity, redistribute income, change the credit system and implement a massive investment program. None of...
Transform the economy by subordinating the international financial system to the authority of elected democratic governments and a managed transition to an employment rich green economy advises Ann Pettifor...
“This public-private partnership will permanently associate the UN with transnational corporations, some of whose essential activities have caused or worsened the social and environmental crises that the...
The neoliberal trap the Modi government finds itself in is not just an Indian phenomenon, says India’s eminent economist C.P. Chandrasekhar who explains we are staring at a crisis which is enduring and...
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 the role of capital and workers in it if we are to really...
A historic launchpad for neoliberal globalization, global elites once again embrace the World Trade Organization. This time as a “coalition of the willing” launching an initiative of proposed new WTO rules for...
South Africa hosts an event unpacking a WTO ECommerce initiative that far from delivering on a promise of ‘ECommerce for Development’ would deepen digital divides and perpetuate concentrated wealth and power...