By Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth The world upside down The aberration is obvious. On 16 October, the WTO (World Trade Organisation), an institution independent of the UN, rejected the proposal to suspend WTO rules on patents for… Continue Reading
By Zachary Dorner* – Boston Review Global trade, enslaved labor, and colonial warfare created demands for medicines that would work for anyone, anywhere. That pressure to view patients as interchangeable remains with us today. COVID-19 has made the connections between… Continue Reading
By Kathryn Ledebur, Linda Farthing and Thomas Grisaffi (*) – The Conversation Bolivia has seen widespread public protests in recent months against the interim government, led by Jeanine Añez, which has twice postponed elections due to coronavirus. Her government has repeatedly violated… Continue Reading
Analysis|Stanly Johny* – The Hindi Earlier this month, the U.S. imposed visa restrictions on the Chinese journalists working in the country, limiting their work period to 90 days Relations between the U.S. and China plunged to a nadir in recent… Continue Reading
by DEVNET JAPAN In March 2013, I established Devnet Tokyo, now Devnet Japan, as the East Asian country’s sole branch of Devnet International, which, since 1995, enjoys a Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Before… Continue Reading
By Marshall Auerback* – Independent Media Institute The upheavals in the oil market are flipping the world on its head and again proving that rational industrial policy is a better guidance. When a staple commodity collapses to negative value it… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures, The global medical community appears to have devised a strategy for mitigating the coronavirus that depends largely on quarantine, or limiting contact among the infected and potentially infected, thereby limiting the virus’ spread. No… Continue Reading
By Vijay Prashad and Alejandro Bejarano (*) – Independent Media Institute Elon Musk, the head of Tesla, wants to build an electric car factory in Brazil. He was supposed to meet Jair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil, in Miami in early… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures Since before World War I and throughout the 1970s, the people who controlled oil had a lever for controlling others. Since the 1980s, the equation has shifted; oil producers have become dependent on oil… Continue Reading
By The Editorial Board* – The New York Times Paid sick leave could slow the spread of the disease and its impact on the economy The Federal Reserve did what it could Tuesday to offset the growing economic impact of… Continue Reading
The Economist Covid-19 presents economic policymakers with a new sort of threat It mixes demand and supply effects The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, or so reckoned Franklin Roosevelt. In many an economic downturn that is true—an… Continue Reading
The Economist After data protection, artificial intelligence, competition and more. The Brussels effect, cont BERLIN AND SAN FRANCISCO – MARK ZUCKERBERG might not have liked everything he heard, but Facebook’s boss got the timing right for a recent visit to… Continue Reading
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 18 2020 (IPS) – In an annual ritual early in the year, most major economic organizations have released forecasts for the global economy in 2020. Incredibly,… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Feb 17 2020 (IPS) – When President Saddam Hussein ran one of the world’s most authoritarian regimes in the militarily-volatile Middle East during 1979-2003, US newspapers routinely described him as “the strongman of Iraq” —… Continue Reading
THE ECONOMIST The government steps up support, not to boost growth but to ensure social stability RARELY HAVE plans in China fallen apart so swiftly, so publicly. On January 12th the leaders of Hubei declared that the province’s GDP would… Continue Reading
By Kunda Dixit* ABU DHABI, Jan 29 2020 (IPS) – The increased frequency of climate-induced weather extremes and public opinion pressure are forcing even major fossil fuel exporting countries in West Asia to make a big push towards renewable energy.… Continue Reading
Editorial The climate crisis and social unrest could finally force corporate leaders to think beyond the profit motive When Klaus Schwab founded the World Economic Forum in an Alpine ski resort in 1971, he wasn’t to know that the 30-year… Continue Reading
By Anis Chowdhury * and Jomo Kwame Sundaram** SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 2020 (IPS) – The latest November 2019 UBS/PwC Billionaires Report counted 2,101 billionaires globally, or 589 more than five years before. Earlier, Farhad Manjoo had seriously… Continue Reading
By Davina Jackson * – The Conversation Al Gore’s 1992 forecast of a Digital Earth — where satellites beam data to reveal all the planet’s environmental dynamics – has gained momentum with the publication of the Manual of Digital Earth… Continue Reading
By Daniel M. Price* – The Washington Post Data-driven innovation from the tech industry promises to improve productivity, competitiveness and growth across the global economy. But it also poses significant risks, such as hacking, data breaches, the exploitation of personal data… Continue Reading
