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Climate Smart Aid Is Anything But International organizations like the World Bank and the UN are supposed to help the world’s poor. Fully convinced about doing good by curbing carbon emissions, they are pushing an anti-development age... Read More... 0 Comments |

Will China Save the World from Depression? China's stimulus package is not likely to bail out either the Chinese peasants or the global economy, says Walden Bello. (Foreign Policy In Focus, 05/19/2009) Read More...

Exclusion And Exploitation: The IMF In Global Governance Essay argues that modern financial institutions like the IMF disadvantage developing countries and suggests alternative ways which could perhaps act as better financial substitutes for developing coun... Read More...

Nedbank: SA will be in recession Aricle on the effects of the global recession on South Africa's economy. By Reuters (FIN24.com,05/14/2009) Read More...

Does Marx still matter? Various authors debate the relevance of Marx to the global economic crisis. (Foreign Policy, May/June 2009) Read More...

Assessing the Russian Economy Commentators share their thoughts on the state of the Russian economy and the influence of the Kremlin and respond to the statement: For in reality, Russian financial confidence is solely the resul... Read More...

IMF warns of Great Recession, Africa at risk Article on the recession's effect on Sub-Saharan Africa. By Lesley Wroughton and George Obulutsa (Sowetan, 03/10/2009) Read More...

Harness Africa’s natural resources to fight poverty Article on the achievements of most African countries prior to the recession and measures that most are taking to lessen it's effects. By Obiageli Ezekwesili (Daily Monitor,04/14/2009) Read More...

Crisis of Value Paper that examines the current global financial crisis and bailout. By Darlington Chisenga. (05/05/2009) Read More... 0 Comments |

Capitalism Divides For the market to grow, capitalists cannot just maximise their profits, they need to enable workers to buy, writes Nayan Chanda. (Businessworld, 04/25/2009) Read More...

Are Ghana’s Capital Outflows Linked to ...? Article on the reasons behind Ghana's recent capital outflows. By Colleen.Dyble (Atlas economic research Foundation, 05/30/2009) Read More...

To Recover, We Must Abide By Classical Principles Author argues that classical economics- not its modern counterpart- offers the best route out of the current financial crisis. By David Ranson (Real Clear Markets, 04/28/2009) Read More...

Can America Fail? A sympathetic critic issues a wake-up call for an America mired in groupthink and blind to its own shortcomings. By Kishore Mahbubani. (The Wilson Quarterly, Spring 2009) Read More...

OPEC and Latin America: Challenges in Venezuela and Ecuador as Trinidad Summit Looms Examination of Venezuela and Ecuador's relationship with OPEC, and their challenges in managing oil production and revenue. By Adam Kott. (IA-Forum, 04/15/2009 Read More... 0 Comments |

Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization? Without massive and rapid intervention to address environmental degradation, food shortages and subsequent government collapses could threaten the world order, says Lester R. Brown. (Scientific Americ... Read More...

Developing Countries and the Global Crisis Unless something is done, the crisis will throw as many as 200 million additional people into poverty, writes Joseph E. Stiglitz (Project Syndicate, 04/14/2009) Read More...

Islamic Finance: Growing Interest for an Interest-less System In the light of the global financial crisis, Shawn Woodley analyses the role and prospects of the Islamic system of finance. (Diplomatic Courier, 4/6/2009) Read More...

Think Again- Japan's Lost Decade Author debunks several myths about Japan's economic struggles in the 1990's and the lessons of this era for current American policy-makers. By Christian Caryl (Foreign Policy, April 2009) Read More...

The West's Fatal Overdose The G-20 has agreed on plans to fight the global downturn. But its approach will only lay the foundation for the next, bigger crisis. By Gabor Steingart (Spiegel Online, 04/03/2009) Read More...

Why Adam Smith Still Matters Karen Horn argues that the thought of Adam Smith has been misrepresented in coverage of the financial crisis. (Standpoint Magazine, April 2009) Read More...

Stimulus Package for Sub-Saharan Africa Article describing the impact of a 50 billion dollar stimulus package on Su Saharan Africa By Mikiko Imai(One.com, 03/26/2009) Read More...

The Implications of the Financial Crisis for Africa Article on the implications of the financial crisis for developing countries.By All Party Parliamentary Group for Debt, Aid and Trade(The House of Commons, 02/2009) Read More...

Practical Steps the G-20 Summit Must Take The G20's response to the global economic crisis should be guided by four principles. By Nicolas Sarkozy. (Washington Post, 04/01/2009) Read More...

Turkey and Russia on the Rise Although Turkey and Russia face many of the same challenges, their national interests are sources of competition rather than common ground. By Reva Bhalla, Lauren Goodrich and Peter Zeihan. (Stratfor ... Read More...

What the World Needs from the London Summit A look ahead at the G20 Summit and an analysis of what it is hoped will be gained from it. By Andrew Pickering. (IA-Forum, 03/30/2009) Read More... 0 Comments |

The Transition to Sustainability The G-20 meeting in London on April 2 offers hope for a true global effort to repair the failing world economy. This is the time and place to launch the global drive toward sustainability, writes Jeff... Read More...

Is China Having It Both Ways? In calling for the creation of a new global reserve currency, China is seeking to preserve the benefits and avoid the costs of its mercantilist economic policy. By Arvind Subramanian (Wall Street Jou... Read More...

Is China the New America? The Great Depression made the United States the world's unquestioned financial leader. The current crisis can do the same for China. By Harold James. (Foreign Policy, March 2009) Read More...

The Geithner Plan Won't Work Argues that the Treasury's plan to cleanse the financial system of toxic assets will benefit the most irresponsible banks at the expense of the taxpayer while failing to achieve its stated objective. ... Read More...

Kenya's economy seen growing 4.1p.c. in 2009 Kenya's economy is expected to grow by just over 4 percent in 2009 as it continues its recovery from post-election violence early last year that stalled activity, a Reuters poll of analysts showed on ... Read More...

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