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Contents Building Community: The Search for Alternative Regionalism in Southeast Asia 1 Jenina Joy Chavez Neo-liberalism and the Working People of Southeast Asia Rene Ofreneo China and Southeast Asia: Emerging Problems in an Economic Relation Walden Bello Welcome China!: China’s Rise and its Increas …
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LEBANON: AGGRESSION AND RESISTANCE Final Report of the International Civil Society and Parliamentary Peace Mission to Lebanon Contents LEBANON: AGGRESSION AND RESISTANCE Final Report of the International Civil Society and Parliamentary Peace Mission to Lebanon Annex 1: Statement and Recommendations …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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