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The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) represents the first attempt at regional integration that is not based primarily on trade liberalization but on a new vision of social welfare and equity. Alternatives are often either theoretical to the point of impracticality, or so micro that sca …

In India it’s not business as usual. Economists claim that India is hurtling along the superhighway of growth and audaciously predict that along with China, Russia and Brazil, it will be one of the giant economic forces in the coming century. The Outlook magazine recently (November 6 2006) carried a …

Food Is Different: Why we must get the WTO out of Agriculture by Peter M. Rosset Why does our global food system give us expensive, unhealthy and bad-tasting food, where we pay more for packaging and long-distance shipping than we do for the food itself?   Why do farmers and peasants from …

Triennial Report 2003-2005  

Occasional Papers 1: Globalisation and Change in Southern Laos By Jonathan Cornford   This book analyzes the development situation in southern Laos. It is therefore of obvious interest to anyone working there. But it deserves a much, much broader readership. The book begins with the observation …

Periods following wars, conflicts and disasters have long been opportunities for channeling massive amounts of public and private money, and human and technical resources towards programmes that are aimed ostensibly towards rehabilitation and reconstruction in affected countries and regions.  T …

Annual Report 2004  

As the Asian Development Bank (ADB) holds its 38th Annual Governors Meeting in Istanbul, Turkey on May 4-6, 2005, Focus on the Global South releases its latest publication, The ADB and Policy (Mis)governance in Asia. This dossier puts togethereleven articles, each tackling important aspects of insti …

The US has always promoted its strategic and economic interests by exalting its own political and economic model of liberal democracy and market capitalism as superior to all else, and when others disagree, they readily resort to covert or overt force to make the point.

By Walden Bello Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, New York 272 p, $25, Pub. Date March 4, 2005 , ISBN 0-8050-7402-3 Order from Amazon The political and economic institutions of Washington ‘s global hegemony, including the system of global economic governance centered on the World Trade Org …