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Published in: ourEconomy: Opinion

Can internationalism survive Covid?

Published on: 7 December 2020

Written by: Kellea Miller All articles by Kellea Miller

Why the pandemic should prompt governments to make a new commitment to economic and social solidarity.

Published in: ourEconomy: Opinion

Why the G20’s failure on debt cancellation is bad news for women

Published on: 25 November 2020

Written by: Ella Hopkins All articles by Ella Hopkins

World leaders have put wealthy creditor interests before debt justice, further jeopardising women’s rights.

Published in: ourEconomy: Opinion

If we want to tackle global inequality, we need better economic theories

Published on: 11 June 2020

Written by: Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven All articles by Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

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

Published in: ourEconomy

Celebrating poverty: the IMF in Egypt

Published on: 15 November 2019

Written by: Amr Khafagy All articles by Amr Khafagy

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

Published in: ourEconomy: Opinion

'Development' is colonialism in disguise

Published on: 9 September 2019

Written by: Arturo Escobar All articles by Arturo Escobar

Written by: Ashish Kothari All articles by Ashish Kothari

Written by: Ariel Salleh All articles by Ariel Salleh

Written by: Federico Demaria All articles by Federico Demaria

Written by: Alberto Acosta All articles by Alberto Acosta

Other worlds are possible - the Pluriverse is breathing.

Published in: ourEconomy

The Indonesia-Netherlands tax treaty is one of Indonesia’s biggest tax leaks, new research shows

Published on: 29 August 2019

Written by: Maarten Hietland All articles by Maarten Hietland

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

Published in: ourEconomy

Outsourcing exploitation: global labor-value chains

Published on: 20 August 2019

Written by: Intan Suwandi All articles by Intan Suwandi

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

Published in: ourEconomy

An agenda for a new internationalism

Published on: 18 July 2019

Written by: Laura Basu All articles by Laura Basu

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

Published in: ourEconomy

Imperialism in a coffee cup

Published on: 16 July 2019

Written by: John Smith All articles by John Smith

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

Published in: ourEconomy

Decolonising the economy

Published on: 1 July 2019

Written by: Laura Basu All articles by Laura Basu

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

Published in: openDemocracyUK

Has conference season changed anything?

Published on: 28 October 2013

Written by: John Hilary and Tara Clarke All articles by John Hilary and Tara Clarke

Last week, UK party conference season finished. This week, leading figures from various perspectives will tell us...

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