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Perspectives on the EU Economic Crisis
October 2011
TNI

The banks are making huge profits again while more people are made redundent from jobs whose services we actually need. Three experts share their views on the European economic crisis, and the failure of governments to take action.

The World's Largest Pyramid Scheme
August 2011
Boris Kagarlitsky

The United States managed to avert a default, and that is good news. But the partisan battle in Congress sent the stock market plunging, and the decision by Standard & Poor’s to downgrade the country’s credit rating has made matters far worse.

Greece marks failure of EU integration
July 2011
Marica Frangakis

The current architecture of the Eurozone exposes its members to the speculative attacks of financial markets, yet does not provide for any crisis management policies.

Abandon the Washington Consensus, forge the Istanbul Consensus
May 2011
Susan George

The world has had more than enough of the Washington Consensus. It’s time to impose an Istanbul Consensus based on common sense, low-cost solutions, public honesty and simple justice and give the people of the LDCs, at last, a chance.

Can Europe escape the debt trap? Yes – and here's how
May 2011
Costas Lapavitsas
 Andy Storey

Today activists in Ireland are following Greece's example by launching a public audit of the country's debt to establish its legitimacy.

New economics for a new administration
August 2010
Walden Bello

A new government in the Philippines offers the country a rare window to fundamentally shift away from failed economic policies, subordinate to neoliberal ideology and the pre-eminance of illegitimate foreign debtors.

The Problem with Old, Familiar Faces
July 2010
Walden Bello

With more poor people in the Philippines now than at any other time in history, its time for the new government to break with the old policy of putting foreign debtors and IMF doctrine first.

Predictable Poverty: The Inevitable Legacy of a Neo-Liberal Europe
October 2008
Susan George

The requirements for reducing or eliminating poverty, in Europe and world-wide, are known and the money is there, but the weight of the financial lobby is such that political will at present seems non-existent.

How the Other Half Dies
June 2008
Susan George

Over the years, many readers have asked me if another edition of How the Other Half Dies would ever appear. I had always, until now, had...

In the shadow of debt
April 2008
Walden Bello
The 25 year long stagnation of the Philippine economy is the consequence of the government’s reduced capacity to invest - as it prioritises debt repayments, and of the loss of revenues due to trade liberalisation.

Assaulted on all sides owing to its entanglement in the ZTE...

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