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Trade deception returns in pan-Africanist guise
The World Bank has exaggerated probable gains from the African Continental Free Trade Area to promote partial and uneven trade liberalisation that is…
Apr 17
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Developing Countries’ Government Debt Crises Loom Larger
Developing countries are being blamed for having borrowed and spent irresponsibly. But they have only been doing what foreign powers and financial…
Apr 3
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March 2024
IMF Urges Non-alignment in Second Cold War
The IMF no. 2 recommends non-alignment as the best option for developing countries in the second Cold War as geopolitics threatens already dismal…
Mar 27
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African Debt Crisis and the International Financial Architecture
IDEAs International Conference, 27-29 March 2024, Accra, Ghana
Mar 25
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Industrial Policy, East or West, for Development or War?
Developing countries wanting to pursue industrial policy were severely reprimanded by advocates of the ‘neoliberal’ Washington Consensus. Now, it is…
Mar 20
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Global South Stagnating under Heavier Debt Burden
Much higher interest rates – due to Western central banks – are suffocating developing nations, especially the poorest, causing prolonged debt distress…
Mar 13
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Building Popular National Economic Alternatives
Viable, popular national economic alternatives require conditions to help build and sustain them. An independent, accountable government can ensure…
Mar 6
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February 2024
Hapless New Year for Global South
As dire economic predictions for 2023 did not materialise, pundits began 2024 far more optimistically. But policy ghosts from the last half-century will…
Feb 28
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Imperialism, Globalisation and Its Discontents
Imperialism continues to dominate the world. Globalisation is losing to some of its anti-theses, but imperialism still rules, increasingly by law…
Feb 19
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North Ignores ‘Perfect Storm’ in Global South
A gathering ‘perfect storm’ – due to various developments, several quite deliberate – now threatens much devastation in the global South, likely to most…
Feb 14
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Neocolonial ISDS, Abused, Biased, Costly, and Grossly Unfair
Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions in international trade and investment agreements – long abused by opportunists with means – are…
Feb 7
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January 2024
Insider Exposé of ESG Greenwashing
A senior manager of the world’s largest investment firm has ‘blown the whistle’ on ESG (environment, social and governance) ‘greenwashing’, especially…
Jan 31
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