From Partnership to Rivalry: China and the USA in the Early Twenty-First Century
by Walden Bello (These are the unpublished, uncorrected page proofs of this article that has been...
Read MorePosted by Anisa | May 14, 2023 | 1Post Types, Asia/World, China, Deglobalisation, Peace and Security, Trade and Investment
by Walden Bello (These are the unpublished, uncorrected page proofs of this article that has been...
Read MorePosted by admin2 | Mar 1, 2019 | Asia/World, Deglobalisation, Trade and Investment
[The following is the intro speech in the debate between Walden Bello and the chief economist of...
Read MorePosted by admin | Sep 2, 2014 | Deglobalisation, Trade and Investment
Six years after the advent of the global financial crisis, and with no end in sight, one would...
Read MorePosted by admin | Dec 30, 2010 | Deglobalisation, Trade and Investment
By Walden Bello* In contrast to their cautiously optimistic forecasts about a sustained recovery at the end of 2009, the dominant mood in liberal economic circles as 2010 draws to a close is gloom, if not doom. ...
Read MorePosted by admin | Nov 5, 2010 | Deglobalisation, Philippines, Trade and Investment
By Walden BelloThe unexpected death a few days ago of Nestor Kirchner deprived not only Argentina of a remarkable, albeit controversial leader. It also took away an exemplary figure in the Global South when it came to dealing...
Read MorePosted by admin | Jul 27, 2010 | Deglobalisation, Philippines, The Commons, Trade and Investment
by Walden Bello*The dominant feature of the Arroyo administration was pervasive corruption, but its most destructive legacy in the long term will probably be its policy failures. The ascent to power of a new president,...
Read MorePosted by admin | Jul 15, 2010 | Deglobalisation, Philippines, Trade and Investment
by Walden BelloAthens. Cafes are full in Athens, and droves of tourists still visit the Parthenon and go island-hopping in the fabled Aegean. But beneath the summery surface, there is confusion, anger, and despair as this...
Read MorePosted by admin | Mar 26, 2010 | Deglobalisation, Philippines, Trade and Investment
by Akbayan Rep. Walden Bello From Philippine Daily Inquirer INQUIRER.net After nine years of witnessing increasing poverty among the masses and spiraling corruption in high places, it is understandable that Filipinos see a...
Read MorePosted by admin | Nov 23, 2009 | Climate & Environment, Deglobalisation, Trade and Investment
Derail DOHA, Save the Climate* By Akbayan Representative Walden Bello There’s something surreal about the ongoing World Trade Organization talks in Geneva, which aim at coming up with a new agreement to bring down tariffs in...
Read MorePosted by admin | Nov 6, 2009 | Deglobalisation, Philippines, The Commons, Trade and Investment
by Walden Bello* (Speech delivered at the People’s Global Action Conference during the Global Forum for Migration and Development, Athens, Greece, Nov. 1, 2009.) The migrant worker experience is one that is increasingly...
Read MorePosted by admin | Sep 5, 2009 | Deglobalisation, Philippines, Trade and Investment
The current global downturn, the worst since the Great Depression 70 years ago, pounded the last nail into the coffin of globalization. Already beleaguered by evidence that showed global poverty and inequality increasing, even...
Read MorePosted by admin | Jul 26, 2009 | Alternative Regionalisms, Deglobalisation, Philippines, Trade and Investment
By Akbayan Representative Walden Bello* (Speech at the Conference on “Regional Integration: an Opportunity Presented by the Crisis,” Universidad de Deportes, Asuncion, Paraguay, July 21-22, 2009.) Globalization has ended in...
Read MorePosted by admin | Jul 10, 2009 | Deglobalisation, Mekong Region, Philippines, Trade and Investment
by Walden Bello* The stylized view of Robert McNamara, who passed away a few days ago, is that after serving as the chief engineer of the disastrous US war in Vietnam, he went on, in 1968, to serve as president of the World...
Read MorePosted by admin | Jul 9, 2009 | Climate & Environment, Deglobalisation, Philippines, Trade and Investment
by Walden Bello*
originally posted on the Business Mirror
THE collapse of neoliberal economics, with its worship of the “self-regulating market,” has had among its most significant consequences the revival of the great English economist John Maynard Keynes.It is not only his writings that make Keynes very contemporary.There is also the mood that permeates them, one that evokes the loss of faith in the old and the yearning for something that is yet to be born.
Aside from their prescience, his reflections on the condition of Europe after the First World War resonate with our current mix of disillusion and hope: In our present confusion of aims, is there enough clear-sighted public spirit left to preserve the balanced and complicated organization by which we live? Communism is discredited by events; socialism, in its old-fashioned interpretation, no longer interests the world; capitalism has lost its self-confidence. Unless men are united by a common aim or moved by objective principles, each one’s hand will be against the rest and the unregulated pursuit of individual advantage may soon destroy the whole.
Read MorePosted by admin | Apr 10, 2009 | Deglobalisation, Trade and Investment
By Walden Bello* (Speech delivered at the Conference on the Global Crisis sponsored by Die Linke Party and Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, March 20-21, 2009). Week after week, we see the global economy contracting at a pace...
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