By Shalmali Guttal April 2002 The recently completed Inspection Process of the Samut Prakarn Wastewater Management Project (SPWMP) in Thailand has revealed fundamental inconsistencies in the accountability mechanisms of the...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello* April 26, 2002 George Soros, the financier, has recently received attention for his critique of the global financial system, especially for his analysis of the paradigm of “market fundamentalism”...
Read MoreBy Shalmali Guttal April 25, 2002 In its 1999 policy on governance, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) states, “The term ‘governance’ means different things to different people.” In relation to the ADB, this is...
Read MoreIN THIS ISSUE of Focus on Trade we examine (and, of course, participate in) the delicate interplay between this thing called “civil society” and the dominant classes. Or, to put it another way, the making and...
Read MoreIN THIS ISSUE of Focus on Trade, we report on the just completed Peace Mission to the southern Philippine regions of Zamboanga and Basilan. The fourteen-member team, which spent five days in the field and released its...
Read Moreby Walden Bello Manila The Bush Administration’s opening of a so-called second front against terrorism in the Philippines has stunned people here with its swiftness. Less than three weeks after the decision was jointly...
Read MoreApril 15th 2002 Ibrahim Assad welcomes us to his stone house in Taybeh, a small village outside Jenin, saying that he is as old as Israel. “I was born in 1948 and married in 1973, the year of the Yom Kippur war. In all...
Read MoreENFOQUE SOBRE COMERCIO No 75 – abril 2002 ComentarioEL CAMINO A MONTERREY PASA POR WASHINGTONMonterrey, México, fue el sitio de la Conferencia sobre Financiamiento para el Desarrollo.Monterrey es la capital de...
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By Marco Mezzera One of the most tangible and determinant consequences of the September 11 events has been the overbearing entrance of the concepts of terror and terrorism into the common language. Treated by most as pure and...
Read MoreBy Shalmali Guttal A longer version of this paper was presented at the Conference on Access to Information Hua Hin, Thailand, March 4-6, 2002 THE discussion of information disclosure should be located in the larger context...
Read MoreBy Victoria Brittain Guardian, 1 April 2002 Ita Ajarul, a copra farmer, got up before dawn as usual and went to the well to wash in preparation for prayers two Sundays ago. But he never made it home. According to his wife,...
Read MoreBy Jeremy Brecher, Dennis Brutus, Tim Costello, and Brendan Smith* International investors have imposed their will on the world by means of a “creditors cartel”-embodied in the IMF, the World Bank, the G-7/8, and...
Read MoreTHE ROAD TO MONTERREY PASSES THROUGH WASHINGTONMonterrey, Mexico is the venue for next week's Financing for Development Conference. Monterrey is the capital of one of the country's most prosperous states, Nuevo...
Read MoreFebruary 2002, Sri Lanka In December 2001, at the General Elections in Sri Lanka, the people once more emphatically and resolutely declared “we do not want war – we want peace”. A majority of the people in Sri...
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