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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 …

IRAQ, INC.: A PROFITABLE OCCUPATION by Pratap Chatterjee "A powerful combination of investigative research and o­n-the-ground reporting." -Naomi Klein, author No Logo, columnist The Guardian, UK In Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Occupation Pratap Chatterjee, managing editor of watchdog group …

The Asia Land Meeting was an initiative born from interest expressed during two meetings: o­ne, an international meeting in Washington DC in April 2002, of a group of academics and activists working with or representing people’s organisations from throughout Asia, each involved in the stru …

By Walden Bello, co-authored by Mary Lou Malig, Herbert Docena and Marissa de Guzman   The book the Anti-Development State: the political economy of permanent crisis in the Philippines was just released in Manila. The book by Dr. Walden Bello and co authored by, Mary Lou Malig, Herbert Docena a …