Category: Trade and Investment
From left to right: Prof. Jayati Ghosh of University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Prof. Simone Deos of the State University of Campinas in Brazil, and Walden Bello at the panel on the crisis of multlateralism.
Essay on a Dying Multilateralism
By Walden Bello* The recent unilateral strikes by the US on Iran’s nuclear development...
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Workers at a shoe factory in Marikina City, the Philippines, 19 August 2022. Photo: IMAGO / Xinhua
Lever or Shackle?
In a time of global uncertainty, what could a free trade deal with the EU do for the Philippines?...
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WEBINAR: The Uncertainties of Free Trade and Protectionism: Opportunities for a Progressive Trade Policy in Asia? - Friday, 9 May 2025.
The Uncertainties of Free Trade and Protectionism: Opportunities for a Progressive Trade Policy in Asia?
Good afternoon, and welcome to this webinar on ‘The Uncertainties of Free Trade and Protectionism:...
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“We Are the Backbone, But We Carry the Burden”: Cambodian Garment Workers and the Fight for Dignity
At a regional workshop on global finance and crisis held in Bangkok this March, activists from...
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Salsabila Putri Noor Aziziah on Feminist Solidarity Against Extractivist Economies
At a regional workshop in Bangkok titled Global Finance: Crisis and Response, Salsabila Putri Noor...
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Celebrating 30 Years of Focus on the Global South: Demanding Climate Justice, Expanding the Commons and Public Economy, and Promoting Real Security
When Focus was founded 30 years ago in 1995, it was up against the confident assertion of global...
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EU PUSHES ITS ECONOMIC AGENDA IN THE MIDST OF UNFOLDING TRADE WARS AND UNCERTAINTIES
Trade Justice advocates renew calls to stop the corporate driven EU-Philippines trade deal ...
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Former Senator Leila De Lima, former Congressman Walden Bello and support groups join criminalized farmers in a press conference assailing the weaponization of the law. 5 November 2014. Quezon City. Photo by Joseph Purugganan.
Criminalized farmers present themselves to former Sen. De Lima and the public ahead of surrender to local court
QUEZON CITY – Eight farmer-leaders from the Samahang Nagkakaisang Mamamayan ng Barangay...
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Indian Civil Society Demands a new democratic financialsystem on World Bank/IMF’s 80th Anniversary
This statement was originally published on Working Group on IFIs and can be read here. Watch here...
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Book Launch: The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism
THE TIME FOR DENIAL IS OVER. Across the Global North, the question of how we should respond to the...
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IMPLICATIONS OF RE-GLOBALIZATION AGENDA ON MULTILATERALISM AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
by Joseph Purugganan There are calls as well for new multilateralism in trade governance. These...
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Interviews with Silvia Ribeiro
Join our board member Silvia Ribeiro of the ETC Group, as she highlights the critical but often...
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