Decolonising the economy

A new ourEconomy series focusing on the global economy and global justice.

How developing countries lose $3 billion every day through an accounting trick that allows corporations to avoid paying tax.

Why is it that just 1p of a £2.50 cup of coffee goes to the farmer who cultivated and harvested the coffee beans?

The UK Labour Party's International Social Forum kickstarted a much needed debate about global justice.

Transnational state capital can be just as harmful as its private counterparts. We need local, democratic and...

To understand Turkey’s actions in the Middle East, we need to grasp its precarious place in world capitalism.

Through their control over supply chains, multinationals based in the global north exploit workers in the global south.

Public services and the people who depend on them are losing out to tax avoiding multinationals.

Women’s groups and the co-operative movement are leading the way out of the debt trap.

Other worlds are possible - the Pluriverse is breathing.

We need progressive industrial policy if we are to solve the region's economic woes.

Solutions to the environmental crisis won’t come in the shape of a battery - they come in the shape of justice,...

Real transformation can only happen if those in the global north join forces with migrants and exploited workers in...

Communities around the world are resisting BHP's neo-colonial mega-mining projects. Climate activists in the global...

We need not one but two internationales – a ‘movement of movements’ and a World Party.

The region has its own rich democratic traditions to draw from.

The state can behave just as badly corporations. But it can also play a positive role in development.

Under IMF reforms, a third of Egyptians are living in poverty. But western institutions are celebrating their ‘success’.

It’s time to abandon development and think about postdevelopment instead.

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Hunker down this winter with the D-Econ alternative economics reading list.

By becoming passive consumers of knowledge produced in the global north, developing countries are slowly being recolonized.

Investments into renewable energy in Africa are critical. But they need to take local ownership and participation seriously.

The Port of Rotterdam boasts of its green credentials in the Netherlands but invests in fossil fuel mega projects abroad.

Recent factory fires in India show how the world’s biggest brands are still profiting from deadly working conditions.

In the scramble for AI-led development, what would global algorithmic justice look like?

Whether AI will be a weapon of social injustice or an agent of positive change depends on the stories we choose to weave.

There is no magic money tree – the ‘rescue packages’ aim to rescue a rotten system, and won’t work.

Dependency theory, though dismissed by mainstream economics, can help us find deeper solutions to global economic problems.

From Zimbabwe to China, trade deals to odious debt, get a new perspective on the pandemic this lockdown.

Indigenous women are on the front lines of resistance against forest evictions.

Is our global economic order rigged to produce inequality and underdevelopment?

We're constantly told that state capitalism is back. But these narratives are far from innocent.

With Black Lives Matter protests raging around the world, the latest ourVoices documentary asks how we can build an...

It’s time for a #FeministBailout based not on profit-maximization but care, respect for eco-systems, and solidarity.

Despite its own warnings, the International Monetary Fund is risking another ‘lost decade’ for development.

This week, all the public development banks in the world are gathering to make post-Covid plans. But guess who...