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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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Biofuel production could offer Brasilia and Washington a source of partnership rather than of conflict, says Rodrigo de Almeida. Read the rest of this post...
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...
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...
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 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...
Anita Roddick recently visited Bangladesh with the New York-based National Labor Committee to investigate the conditions of women garment workers there, and wrote about her trip on openDemocracy. The economist Farida Khan offered a different interpretation of Bangladeshi experience. Now, the National Labor Committee sends this response to Farida Khan. Read the rest of this post...
Unequal power relationships in the world economic system mean that hungry Africans often have no choice but to eat genetically-modified food. Patrick Mulvany argues that food aid policies can be driven by the commercial policies interests of rich nations rather than the interests of the most vulnerable people. Read the rest of this post...
The ready-made garment industry is the backbone of economic growth in Bangladesh and an important factor for future development, argues Farida Khan in this reply to human rights campaigner Anita Roddick. Read the rest of this post...
“I Have a Story to Tell” is a tribute to the courage and capabilities of young African women. The recently published book is a series of autobiographical accounts by young women supported through their education by the Cambridge-based agency, Camfed. Read the rest of this post...
The rich world’s blocking of debt relief for Ethiopia, the world’s poorest country, creates a terrible burden of complicity. Read the rest of this post...
Does international trade help poor people? The man who created the World Trade Organisation, has no doubt: the answer is yes. In a confident interview, Peter Sutherland champions economic integration, welcomes the entry of China, India, Russia and Brazil into the global economy, and claims that the failure of the latest WTO summit at Cancún needn’t be permanent – provided both north and south are committed to multilateralism. Read the rest of this post...
From Cameroon, a passionate cry of protest against the global intellectual property system that holds African citizens in the chains of poverty. Read the rest of this post...
A great financial scandal is taking place. Italy’s food giant, and one of the world’s great companies, has collapsed in a cloud of fraud. An Italian financial journalist assesses the causes and global ramifications of “Enron alla parmigiana”. Read the rest of this post...
The former Irish president and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, now architect of the Ethical Globalisation Initiative, talks to openDemocracy about the 21st century human rights agenda – one that connects universal principles to the daily lives and needs of the world’s poorest people. Read the rest of this post...
The lesson of openDemocracy’s debate on the fallout from the Cancún summit is that campaigners for global change who want to move from protest to power need to extend their sights beyond the short term and single issue. Read the rest of this post...
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