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trade, economics, justice?Fundamental to sustainable and just globalisation, questions of economics, finance and trade are too serious for rhetoric. OpenDemocracy debates and articles get to the heart of the most difficult questions.
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The World Bank economist talks to openDemocracy about globalisation, inequality and labour mobility. Read the rest of this post...
Affordable drugs are crucial for fighting AIDS in developing countries, but the United States puts their availability at risk through its harsh trade agreements. Will Thailand stop the US in its tracks, and help protect access to life-saving treatments for citizens worldwide? Read the rest of this post...
The effect of the London bombs was to aid the powerful and damage the weak. Campaigners for global justice must not be deflected, says Ann Pettifor. Read the rest of this post...
The pundits who embrace or reject globalisation too often live in an eternal present and ignore the lessons of the phenomenon’s deep past, says Alex MacGillivray. Read the rest of this post...
Brazil's growing trade power requires
tricky new skills of the country's leaders. After hearing foreign minister
Celso Amorim speak in London, Alex MacGillivray examines the challenges
facing Brazil's trade diplomacy.
The world's leading trade powers are seeking to carve out a new deal on globalisation. Tom Burgis suspects the rich world is hoping to have its cake and eat it. Read the rest of this post...
The ultra-competitive world of trade negotiations sees multiple alliances battling for preference and interest. Alex MacGillivray maps the maze, and reports on a new responsibility-based approach evolving behind the scenes in Hong Kong. Read the rest of this post...
As another global trade summit ends in a raw deal for the poor, Tom Burgis reports from Hong Kong on the changing dynamics between protest and power. Read the rest of this post...
The pessimism surrounding the World Trade Organisation meeting in Hong Kong contrasts with the feelgood outcome of the Montreal climate-change summit. But Ehsan Masood argues that even a flawed WTO compares favourably with other United Nations institutions in giving the poorest nations voice and influence. Read the rest of this post...
As thousands of ministers, trade mandarins and protesters gather for this week’s crunch World Trade Organisation ministerial, Tom Burgis reports from Hong Kong, where the stakes could not be higher. Read the rest of this post...
Their world turned upside down in the great Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004. Six months on, the fishing communities of southeast India struggle to rebuild their lives. Kirsty Hughes reports from a forgotten frontline of reconstruction. Read the rest of this post...
A proclaimed "year of Africa" is deaf to the ways that the most global of 21st-century citizens – Africans living in the rich north – are reinventing their home countries' economies, says David Styan. Read the rest of this post...
Global security is about inequality, injustice and livelihood – and trade connects all these issues, says Britain’s international development secretary. The cycle of international trade talks, which reach a critical point at the end of July 2004, is a key element in the progress towards a fairer world. Read the rest of this post...
Oxfam’s Amy Barry attended the eleventh United Nations Conference on Trade And Development (UNCTAD) in June 2004. Her daily dispatches to openDemocracy, now gathered here in compendium format, trace the personal experience of one participant in a summit whose global impacts on the lives of millions are unseen but real. Read the rest of this post...
A report by respected American Political Science Association scholars argues that social inequality is damaging American democracy. Godfrey Hodgson sees political implications in the United States election year. Read the rest of this post...
How can the lives and conditions of women garment workers in Bangladesh be improved? Naila Kabeer questions whether the workers themselves benefit from the campaigning approach of Anita Roddick and the National Labor Committee. Read the rest of this post...
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