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En este resumen, Walden Bello condensa las ideas y datos clave contenidos en la monumental obra de Thomas Piketty El capital y la ideología. El economista francés merece ser leído por más gente, pero muchos no tienen ni el tiempo ni la energía para recorrer este extenso clásico de 1.215 páginas. Est …
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Dans ce résumé, Walden Bello présente les idées et les données essentielles contenues dans l’œuvre monumentale de Thomas Piketty, Capital et idéologie. L’économiste français mérite d’être lu par un grand nombre de personnes, mais beaucoup n’ont ni le temps ni l’énergie de travailler sur cet ouvrage …
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At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the disastrous effects of the global neoliberal order, highlighting the need for radical redistributive reforms, India has chosen the opposite path. The three new agricultural laws enacted by the government of Narendra Modi threaten to further liber …
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Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology is a wide-ranging exploration of the origins, maintenance, and persistence of inequality that spans 1042 pages. In the interest of making the French economist more accessible, Focus on the Global South came up with Reading Piketty I: A Concise and Comprehensive …
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The global trade system established in 1948 by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the predecessor organization of the WTO, intentionally excluded agriculture from its jurisdiction. The exception, requested by the US, allowed member states to maintain support and protection policies f …
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Since the food crisis in the 1960s, India’s agricultural policy was designed to promote food security and protect rural livelihoods. From the mid-1990s, successive governments resisted neoliberal, export-oriented policies pushed by the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Agriculture. Indian nego …
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In this summary, Walden Bello distills the key ideas and data contained in Thomas Piketty’s monumental work Capital and Ideology. The French economist deserves to be read by more people, but many have neither the time nor energy to work through this sprawling 1,042-page classic. This short volume is …
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Global economic development has been going through a process of rising polarisation. Countries in the global South are far from being able to catch up with the global North, where digital technology companies are the new corporate giants. How does the digitalisation of the economy contribute to the …
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A decade ago, the movements of peasants, fisherfolk, shepherds, women, migrants, workers, young people, and indigenous peoples sowed a crucial seed in the defence of Food Sovereignty and the right to food—the Nyéléni Newsletter. During this ten year germination period, we have shared challenges, ex …
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A guide for concerned citizens, activists, journalists and policymakers The ECT was signed over two decades ago without much public debate. It protects all investments in the energy sector, including coal mines, oil fields and gas pipelines. Any state action that harms a company’s profits from these …
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