by Muto Ichiyo* There seems to be no need to talk anew about the disastrous human, environmental, and cultural consequences and implications of the globalisation process based on the “free market†neoliberal model, of which...
Read Moreby Sulak Sivaraksa* I am to speak on alternatives to the APEC Agenda and in some measure much of what I have written and spoken about over the past years has addressed this topic. That is because the principles and values that...
Read Moreby Basil Fernando* No justice, no country. These were the words of a young girl who was interviewed on the BBC while she was participating with thousands of others in protests against the justice system of Belgium after the...
Read Moreby Mike Jendrzejczyk* The Bogor Declaration adopted at the APEC summit in 1994 says that the three pillars of APEC should be sustainable growth, equitable development and national stability. But can any of these goals be...
Read Moreby Professor Nikom Chandravithun (Summary of paper presented by Professor Chandravithun) Thailand began its industrialisation in 1950s, but it received impetus only in 1961 when the first national plan was launched. The first...
Read Moreby Walden Bello, in The Nation Newspaper, 15 September, 1997, Bangkok, Thailand Betrayal, horse-trading, wheeling and dealing that’s all part of Asean politics. Walden Bello has the inside story on how the...
Read Moreby Walden Bello, in The Nation Newspaper, 4 August, 1997, Bangkok, Thailand In the beginning, it was Japanese investment that spurred Asean economic development, now it may be what saves it, Walden Bello comments. Does the...
Read MoreAlan Fowler (Co-Founder, INTRAC and development Consultant, Manila) and Kamal Malhotra (Co-Director, FOCUS, Bangkok) June 1997 This discussion paper argues that, to be effective in redressing the unsustainable inequities and...
Read MoreBy Kamal Malhotra, in Between Rhetoric and Reality: Essays on Partnership in Development, North South Institute, Ottawa: Renouf Publishing, 1997. A. INTRODUCTION The past 15 years have brought with them one of the most rapid...
Read Moreby Walden Bello, in The Nation Newspaper, 6 June, 1997, Bangkok, ThailandBanning the imports of products produced in environmentally harmful ways sounds fine. But not when this is used as an excuse for economic protectionism....
Read Moreby Walden Bello, The Nation Newspaper, 25 March 1997, Bangkok Thailand Tensions and wars can have a variety of causes. External conflicts among states sometimes have their roots in the internal dynamics of societies, and...
Read Moreby Walden Bello, the Nation Newspaper, 18 March, 1997, Bangkok, ThailandWith leaks at reactors, rising costs of building plants and a huge stockpile of weapon-grade plutonium, Japan’s nuclear energy plan raises the...
Read Moreby Walden Bello, in The Nation Newspaper, 4 March, 1997, Bangkok Thailand If the bureaucrats are stymied when it comes to economic reform, they are desperate when it comes to high tech. The key to global economic primacy, they...
Read MorePaper prepared by Kamal Malhotra, Co-Director, Focus on the Global South, Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute, Bangkok, Thailand, November 1996. This paper is based on, but an elaboration of, a presentation by the...
Read Moreby Kamal Malhotra, Co-Director, Focus on the Global South (FOCUS), Bangkok, Thailand. Paper prepared for the Regional Conference on “MonoCultural Cropping in Southeast Asia: Social/Environmental Impacts and Sustainable...
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