Walden Bello Ten years after the Asian financial cataclysm of 1997, the economies of the Western Pacific Rim are growing, though not at the rates they enjoyed before the crisis. There is no doubt that the region has been...
Read MoreThe WTO’s draft modalities on agriculture, released by New Zealand’s Ambassador Crawford Falconer will allow the US and EU to go scot-free where it comes to domestic supports. According to Focus on the Global South, this is...
Read MoreRead other papers presented >>> See Photographs from the conference>> Shalmali Guttal, Focus on the Global South, July 15, 2007 Good morning everyone. On behalf of several organisations and networks,...
Read MoreA Conference on International Finance, Corporate Globalisation and Alternatives July 15-17, 2007 Organised by: Bretton Woods Project, Eurodad, Fifty Years is Enough, Focus on the Global South, Gender Action, IDEAS, Jubilee South...
Read More[English | Español ] Par Walden Bello Traduction: Andrée Durand, C[%]rditrad La Révolution chinoise a parfois été décrite par les sociologues politiques comme le produit d’une alliance entre les intellectuels...
Read MoreEnglish | Espanõl Par Walden Bello Traduction de l’anglais: Nathalie Serrand, Coorditrad Le court livre de Dale Wen «La Chine Face à la Globalisation: une Revue Mitigée », publié par le Forum International sur la...
Read More[English ] (Reflexión en continuidad a la de Walden Bello, EL FORO EN UNA ENCRUCIJADA ) Chico Whitaker "¿Será hora de que el FSM levante su campamento y deje sitio para nuevos modos de...
Read More[Espanõl] (Reflection in continuity to Walden Bello's article , The Forum at the Crossroads ) Chico Whitaker "Is it time for the WSF to fold up its tent and give way to new modes of global organization of...
Read MoreIndymedia UK {xtypo_quote}The big spin machine could be set in motion. Suddenly (the source turned out to be the German press agency DPA) a horribly mistranslated quote by one of the speakers on stage at the closing...
Read MoreAileen Kwa, Geneva In a concerted effort to smooth over the setback of the collapse in G4 talks in Potsdam on Thursday, Pascal Lamy quickly convened an informal Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC) meeting at the WTO on Friday...
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The third collapse of the Doha Round –
following the collapse in Cancun in September 2003 and Geneva in July
2006 – indicates that it is time we bury the deceptively named
Doha Development Agenda, says the Bangkok based think tank Focus on
the Global South.
The latest breakdown in talks between
US, EU, Brazil and India in Potsdam, Germany yesterday, is good news
for democracy and the developing world.
Aileen Kwa, Geneva, June 2007 Developed countries’ pretense that the Doha Round will deliver on ‘development’ has fallen by the wayside. The Round was never launched to deliver on development in the first place. As...
Read MoreWhen Walden Bello, a sociology professor from the University of the Philippines, spoke at the opening rally, he warned that at previous protests the question of the Iraq war and a possible attack on Iran had been underestimated...
Read MoreAuthor and activist Walden Bello argued the U.S. military presence in South East Asia to contain China prevented an alliance for peace in the region in 1990 because Washington objected to a proposed multi-structure in South East...
Read MoreAfsar Jafri* On 3rd June, the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) held a stakeholders meeting in which the New Zealand based consultant group Castalia (hired by the World Bank and the Public Private Infrastructure...
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