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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.
Wednesday 14th December

Chinese companies under scrutiny in Zimbabwe

Andrew Mambondiyani, 14 December 2011
Ten years into the Look East policy, Zimbabwe is showing itself to be a not-so-satisfied customer of Chinese investment.
Wednesday 16th November

Armed conflict, land grabs and big business: Colombia’s deadly pact

Kyla Sankey, 16 November 2011
The recent assassination of Colombian marxist insurgent group leader Alfonso Cano has been hailed internationally as an advance towards peace, giving Colombia a boost down the path to becoming the latest emerging market of Latin America. A closer look at the history and nature of Colombia's nearly 50 year-long armed struggle, however, tells us otherwise.
Monday 19th October

Killing aid

Chola Mukanga, 19 October 2009
The anti-aid argument is too crude, says Chola Mukanga
Thursday 26th March

The curse of commodities

26 March 2009
Oil-fuelled growth with child prostitution in Timor-Leste
Tuesday 11th September

If shirts could speak and 'we the people' would listen

Anita Roddick, 11 September 2007
Engagement, anger and love from a business pioneer (archive)
Wednesday 15th August

Debtonation: how globalisation dies

Ann Pettifor, 15 August 2007
The global financial crisis exposes the failure of the economic model that rules the world

Monday 13th August

The end of gentlemanly capitalism

Tony Curzon Price, 13 August 2007
The global financial panic is not just an institutional wobble: it reveals a system-crisis
Thursday 29th March

Brazil, the United States and ethanol

Rodrigo de Almeida, 29 March 2007
Biofuel production could offer Brasilia and Washington a source of partnership rather than of conflict, says Rodrigo de Almeida.
Friday 19th January

How to ease global inequality: Branko Milanovic interviewed

openDemocracy, 19 January 2007
The World Bank economist talks to openDemocracy about globalisation, inequality and labour mobility.
Sunday 16th July

Wealth versus health - the Thai frontier

Roger Tatoud, 16 July 2006
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?
Monday 3rd July

Gleneagles, 7/7 and Africa

Ann Pettifor, 3 July 2006
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.
Tuesday 18th April

Wonderful shrinking world

Alex MacGillivray, 18 April 2006
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.
Tuesday 14th March

Free trade? When it suits us

Tom Burgis, 14 March 2006
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.

The Brazilian hat-trick

Alex MacGillivray, 14 March 2006
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. 
Thursday 22nd December

The trade gangs of Hong Kong

Alex MacGillivray, 22 December 2005
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.
Monday 19th December

The WTO's raw deal

Tom Burgis, 19 December 2005
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.
Tuesday 13th December

Why the poorest countries need a WTO

Ehsan Masood, 13 December 2005
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.
Monday 12th December

The siege of Hong Kong

Tom Burgis, 12 December 2005
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.
Thursday 23rd June

Tamil Nadu after the tsunami: hopes and obstacles

Kirsty Hughes, 23 June 2005
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.
Wednesday 25th May

Tony Blair and Africa - old images, new realities

David Styan, 25 May 2005
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.
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