The international community has the means to redesign the worldwide digital ecosystem to ensure critical functions performed in the digital world...
Selected Stories
An attentive review of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights suggests that 70 years on we have not fully averted the kinds of mistakes that...
No major democratic country deals with domestic civil or criminal matters related to human rights based on a voluntary system, explains Harris...
Significant Poverty in the UK Triggers Investigation by Human Rights Expert, Philip Alston Poverty and destitution in the UK, even among those...
The British model since 2010, based on ‘austerity’ can be seen as a transfer of resources from the poor to the relatively wealthy, explains UN...
Corporate hijacking of international public institutions like the World Trade Organization has been denounced by developing countries and activists...
WTO 2018 Public Forum – Deborah James, Vahini Naidu, Prerna Bomzan, Richard Kozul-Wright, Ravi Kanth TRNN presents full length documentary...
Taking an ever rising share of global income the real benefits of global trade go to the profits of the top 2,000 TNCs. The flip-side is falling...
Think hard about the relevance of the 1948 Havana Charter for addressing the imbalances and inequities of the 21st century global economy says...
The US is deliberately structuring global Internet governance to ensure unrestricted corporate freedom, favor its own surveillance apparatus and...
Critical prerequisites like security for public users were missing in the internet’s large scale commercial implementation based on ARPANET...
Is Capitalism In Crisis? Author of ‘Karl Marx’s Capital & The Present’ Responds – C.P. Chandrasekhar
The fundamental proneness to crisis under capitalism was not overcome in the Golden Age of Capitalism and crisis in the late 1960s ushered in an era...
The question of whether or not banks should be stripped of their ability to create money goes to vote in Switzerland by national referendum. Of...
The argument in favor of stripping banks of their ability to create money is based on a fundamental misconception of how the monetary and financial...
There is no easy monetary fix for the problems of modern capitalist economies; deep problems in the economy cannot be solved by trying to control the...
China’s Embrace Of An Intellectual Property System Imposed On It By The United States – Peter Drahos
The U.S. & China need to rethink the world’s intellectual property-based innovation system to safeguard citizen interests or else this...
Peter Dittus, former BIS Chief and author of ‘Revolution Required’ and Yilmaz Akyuz, South Centre Chief Economist and author of ‘Playing With Fire’...
The deepened financial integration of the Global South is a further mechanism of Northern countries that is compressing wage income but debt –...
Tactics by superpowers in new technologies like Big Data and Artificial Intelligence seeking further power under the guise of new E-Commerce rules...
Global inequality, household indebtedness, insufficient investment and stagnant economic recovery are the consequences of the dominance of large...
Historically all major thinkers about the economy were development economists as they saw the economy going through transformative structural changes...
1947 was a year of political ambition, says UNCTAD’s Richard Kozul-Wright at the book launch of ‘The Handbook of Alternative Theories of...
None of the countries that actually developed did it without planning; social policies are as integral to strategies of economic development as...
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...
Safeguards need to be put in place so artificial intelligence can be used safely for everybody says Catherine Saez of Intellectual Property Watch...
Imperialism is about the struggle to control economic territories such as markets, workers and natural resources says economist, Jayati Ghosh who...
The ability of nation states to regulate capital in the interests of their own citizens, workers and society was increasingly constrained in the...
Capitalism has always been remarkably agile is terms of responding to new conditions and creating new markets all designed to lift capitalism out of...
We are not against intellectual property protection, but we want to see that health prevails when there is a conflict between a nation’s...
We must adopt a class-based analysis of globalization in order to attack the multilateral system that is producing inequality, advises South Centre...