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The following paper was presented at the Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute’s Webinar “Sustainable Social and Economic Recovery after COVID-19” on September 17, 2020.
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What I’d like to do is focus on some economic vulnerabilities exposed by COVID-19 and how the (...)
“Face to neo-malthusian tendencies, we need a positive narrative. An important part of the answer should consist in arguing that the maximum number of people that can be supported by a certain mode of production is not the only parameter of the population debate. Another parameter, at least as (...)
’For the rich, much much less, while for the billions who lack the basics: more good food, better housing, abundant clean water...’
Radical action on climate change is at last on the agenda. The emphasis is on urgency and action and - for XR notably - ‘truth.’ Questions of long-term (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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.
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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 (...)
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 (...)
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 Landscapes on Uncrowded.org are conspicuously lacking in people: a spacious meadow, a desert stretching to a distant mountain range, and a calm expanse of water.The Washington D.C. non-profit promotes a troubling message against this bucolic backdrop. They claim that national and (...)
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