by adminrise | Oct 14, 2020 | Development issues
Ebola, SARS, Zika, HIV/AIDS, West Nile fever and now COVID-19. These are some of the highest-profile diseases to emerge in the last several decades. And while they emerged in different parts of the world, they have one thing in common. They are what scientists call...
by adminrise | Sep 30, 2020 | Development issues
Covid-19 has served as a reminder that we live in a closely interdependent world that brings opportunities but also carries dangers. It has, just as importantly, shed light on a whole series of pre-existing conditions – from heightened inequality, to...
by adminrise | Sep 22, 2020 | Development issues
Developing members at the WTO are faced with shrinking policy space to support their agricultural sector owing to the restrictive provisions of the Amber Box. Contrastingly, most developed members are able to provide high levels of product-specific support without...
by adminrise | Sep 1, 2020 | Development issues
The Covid-19 pandemic has illustrated how irrational the financial sector has become. Even as the real economy has ground to a halt, stock prices have gyrated wildly, first collapsing, then shooting up. Even as hundreds of millions suffer, big tech corporations like...
by adminrise | Aug 25, 2020 | Development issues
Poor communities around the world are sending a clear, urgent and repeated message: “Hunger may kill us before coronavirus”. Combined with ongoing conflicts, spiraling inequality, and an escalating climate crisis, the pandemic has shaken an already broken food system...
by adminrise | Aug 22, 2020 | Development issues
Excerpts from Walden Bello, “Global Finance, Power and instability”, in Trans National Institute, State of Power 2019, https://www.tni.org/en/stateofpower2019 In the wake of the neoliberal programme of the 1980s, the interests and focuses of capitalism turned towards...
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