The Political Economy of a Predatory State Revisited: The Marcos-World Bank Partnership
By Walden Bello* (Presentation at the International Conference on “Dynamics of Change and...
Read MorePosted by Anisa | Feb 28, 2023 | FOCUS Dispatch, Opinion/Analysis, Philippines, Power and Democracy, Trade and Investment
By Walden Bello* (Presentation at the International Conference on “Dynamics of Change and...
Read MorePosted by admin | Apr 4, 2011 | Philippines, Trade and Investment
By Walden Bello The impacts of disasters occurring in other parts of the world, from Libya to Japan, have perhaps been communicated more drastically to the Philippines than to other countries. Whether it is the tragic trilogy of...
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 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 | May 16, 2008 | Food Sovereignty and Agroecology, Philippines, The Commons, Trade and Investment
How “free trade” is destroying Third World agriculture-and who’s fighting back (This article appears in the June 2, 2008, edition of The Nation [New York]. It is being reprinted with permission from The...
Read MorePosted by admin | Feb 20, 2008 | Philippines, Trade and Investment
By Walden Bello* Skyrocketing oil prices, a falling dollar, and collapsing financial markets are the key ingredients in an economic brew that could end up in more than just an ordinary recession. The falling dollar...
Read MorePosted by admin | Sep 24, 1997 | India, Laos, Mekong Region, Philippines, Thailand, Trade and Investment
by Walden Bello* (This paper was originally prepared for the Hivos Partner Consulation, Trivandrum, Kerala, India, September 1-3, 1997.) Overviews are always broad-strokes affairs that inevitably miss many key dimensions,...
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