The deepened financial integration of the Global South is a further mechanism of Northern countries that is compressing wage income but debt – growing and massive accumulation of debt worldwide –...
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Tactics by superpowers in new technologies like Big Data and Artificial Intelligence seeking further power under the guise of new E-Commerce rules being pushed at the World Trade Organization are denounced by...
Global inequality, household indebtedness, insufficient investment and stagnant economic recovery are the consequences of the dominance of large financial and corporate bodies in shaping globalization says...
Historically all major thinkers about the economy were development economists as they saw the economy going through transformative structural changes and that is what they studied, says Jayati Ghosh. This 4...
1947 was a year of political ambition, says UNCTAD’s Richard Kozul-Wright at the book launch of ‘The Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development ‘ in posing the question, “Do we have...
None of the countries that actually developed did it without planning; social policies are as integral to strategies of economic development as purely economic policies explains C.P. Chandrasekhar at the book...
Change comes when enough people in a society realize what’s going on doesn’t work says Jayati Ghosh, co-editor of “The Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development” a landmark volume that shows...
Safeguards need to be put in place so artificial intelligence can be used safely for everybody says Catherine Saez of Intellectual Property Watch reporting on events at the Artificial Intelligence summit...
Imperialism is about the struggle to control economic territories such as markets, workers and natural resources says economist, Jayati Ghosh who explains imperialism has gone through many different forms of...
The ability of nation states to regulate capital in the interests of their own citizens, workers and society was increasingly constrained in the 1980s by an international legal architecture says Jayati Ghosh...