By Sir Arthur Richard Jolly BRIGHTON, UK, Aug 28 2018 (IPS) – Kul Gautam’s memoir is everything which one hopes for from a good biography. There are difficulties all along the way, obstacles and challenges overcome and a vision pursued with extraordinary persistence in spite of…
Shapiro* – Geopolitical Futures A Grexit is finally here. Only it’s not the one that kept many of us up at night for years.
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram* KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 21 2018 (IPS) – Protracted economic stagnation in rich countries continues to threaten the development prospects of poorer countries. Globalization and economic liberalization over the last few decades have integrated developing…
By Steven Donziger* – The Huffington Post The Real Irrefutable Truths About the Company’s Toxic Dumping and Fraud More than 20 years ago, indigenous and farmer communities in Ecuador’s Amazon went to court in the United States to seek compensation from Chevron for harm caused…
By Nicole Goodkind * – Newsweek t’s been a good year for financial companies. Banks profited by a record breaking $56 billion during the first quarter of 2018, up 27.5 percent from the year prior, because of tax cuts and a growing economy.
By Paul Krugman* – The New York Times If you had to identify a place and time where the humanitarian dream — the vision of a society offering decent lives to all its members — came closest to realization, that place and time would surely be Western Europe in the six decades…
By David Brooks* – The New York Times As you know, everybody sees the Middle East through his or her own narrative. Conservatives see it through the “front line in the war on terror” narrative and defend Israel’s actions on the Gaza border fence this week.
by Gerry Rodgers* – Indian Express Inequality has figured prominently in Brazil’s economic reforms. India’s liberalisation regime focused on removing poverty, but strains caused by inequalities are sharpening. Thirty years ago, income distribution in India was regarded as…
