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Degrowth is a political, economic, and social movement based on ecological economics, anti-consumerist and anti-capitalist ideas that seek to address the limits-to-growth dilemma. Key to the concept of degrowth is that reducing consumption does not mean a decrease in well-being. Rather, the (...)
The deadly global heatwave has made it impossible to ignore: in cities worldwide, we are now divided into the cool haves and the hot have-nots
When July’s heatwave swept through the Canadian province of Quebec, killing more than 90 people in little over a week, the unrelenting sunshine threw (...)
Don’t despair that the huge gaps between rich and poor cannot ever be bridged. As our new index shows, some countries are taking steps to reduce inequality
Windhoek, Namibia: since independence, the country’s poverty rate has been reduced from 53% to 23%. Photograph: Duncan (...)
Fifteen leading economists, including three Nobel winners, argue that the many billions of dollars spent on aid can do little to alleviate poverty while we fail to tackle its root causes.
Development efforts over the past few decades have not been as effective as promised.
Global poverty remains intractable: more than 4 billion people live on less than the equivalent of $5 (£3.80) a day, and the number of people going hungry has been rising. Important gains have been made in some areas, but (...)
If it was recognised as work, women’s unpaid family caring would become the largest sector of the global economy. This report analyses unpaid care and its relevance to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Because of its importance to achieving gender equality, SDG 5 calls for (...)
IN a recent report, the Centre for Global Development made a surprising and somewhat startling observation. Looking at the data from several recent studies, they noted that even the very best international development programmes to reduce global poverty could only produce outcomes that were 40 times less successful than the income gain people in poor countries experienced when their citizens were provided greater labour mobility. In simple non-economist terms, it means that visas work (...)
The World Bank’s new annual World Development Report focuses on labour —- and almost ignores workers’ rights.
The World Bank decided last year to devote the 2019 edition of its flagship annual policy review publication, the World Development Report, to the theme of the future of work. (...)
On the 11th of April, 2017, at the end of its report, the OECD proudly announced an increase in official development assistance for the past year: “In 2016, net official development assistance ODA) of the member countries of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) OECD reached a new high of (...)
Women’s empowerment has long been a development buzzword, but a narrow focus on getting women into low-paid work may be marginalising them further
In the blue tent on the building site that forms Noora Murat Khalaf’s home, the shiny new sewing machine is incongruous, to say the least.
The (...)
Book Review Benjamin Selwyn (2014) The Global Development Crisis. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 978-0745660158. 224 pp. £55 hardcover, £17 paperback, £17 e-book Reviewed by Andreas Bieler, Nottingham University, United Kingdom
In 2014, Ben Selwyn published the book The Global Development Crisis, (...)
One of the purposes of the Past & Present Reading Group in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney is to collectively read both classic and contemporary contributions to heterodox political economy and political theory broadly construed. Having read current landmark (...)
Karl Marx (Marx, 1867), in Capital Vol. 1, identifies the various sources of primitive accumulation that allowed the European capital to spread globally, specially the colonial plunder, public debt and the international credit system. Additionally, in Europe, the producers have been gradually (...)
Keynote speech of Walden Bello, People’s Forum on APEC, Quezon City, Nov 17, 2015. The APEC Summit: A Failed Organization Hosted by a Failed Administration
It has been nearly 20 years since the APEC Summit that was held in Subic in 1996. APEC then was the spearhead of globalization. It was the (...)
Capitalists are interested in profit, not development. Only workers can empower the Global South.
Marketize, privatize, deregulate: the Washington Consensus mantra dominated policy in the developing world for a quarter century. For most the recipe was a disaster.
Today, alternatives are being (...)
An Open Letter to the United Nations:
As the UN and the world’s governments prepare to ratify the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on September 25th, we must be clear that they do not represent the best interests of the world’s majority — those that are currently exploited and oppressed (...)
The long interview given by Eric Toussaint to Anthony Legrand on the 11th July 2014 is presented in two parts. The interview addresses how an organization like the CADTM analyzes its activities in the context of North / South relations.
See the second part on ESSF (article 32784), North/South (...)
Congratulations everyone on World Environment Day 2013 which is being celebrated worldwide today (5th June) in order to raise awareness on the need to take positive environmental actions and revitalize our commitment towards saving environment to protect the mother planet for ourselves and the (...)
Paved with Good Intentions: Canada’s development NGOs from idealism to imperialism. By Nikolas Barry-Shaw and Dru Oja Jay. Fernwood Publishing, Black Point, NS, 2012. 302 pages, $24.95 (Canadian) paperback. IN ONE SENSE, I came of age with regard to the problems with Canadian Non-Governmental (...)
The example of Pinochet’s Chile shows the many flaws of Thatcher’s belief that free markets and growth go hand in hand.
Chile’s assistance to British forces during the 1982 Falklands war is said to have indebted Margaret Thatcher to the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. However, Pinochet was (...)
Book Review by Prof. Vibhuti Patel: Challenges for Development in 21st Century (B.R. Publications, Delhi, 2011), a book authored by Dr. Ruby Ojha.
This book makes a path-breaking contribution to encourage discourse on some of the most neglected areas in the mainstream economics. This scholarly (...)
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