March 2011
In December 2010, hundreds of water union workers in Jakarta (Indonesia) protested against the privatisation of water services in the city.
March 2011
The experience of water privatisation in Jakarta (Indonesia) shows that private investments are not the answer to fulfill the human right to water.
March 2011
Mildred E. Warner
Proponents of privatization argue that it saves costs due to competitive pressures private providers face to be more efficient, but our comprehensive scientific analysis found no empirical support for cost savings.
January 2011
Dr. Chaohua Wang, Research Scholar in Chinese Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
The economic elites are turning to a neoliberal Keynesianism to save the crisis of capitalism, which is doomed to fail because it does not address its root causes.
January 2011
Changing global power balances, continuing crises, Iran, Afghanistan. Four TNI fellows share their predictions for 2011.
November 2010
In the third of a series of interviews with civil society activists from Asia we hear about the damaging impacts of free trade agreements on labour rights in the Philippines.
November 2010
After a brief period of destabilisation, self-justification and the occasional mea culpa, the very people and institutions that plunged the world into crisis have re-emerged unscathed, as the fount of truth and all reasonable policy.
September 2010
The EU's announced fund of 40 million Euros to support “non-profit partnerships” of water and sanitation utilities in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific is the latest evidence that the corporate push for water privatisation has been forced on to the back foot.
September 2010
Market reforms have given rise to new revisions of the language, and all personal activities are now expressed in terms of buying and selling.
July 2010
The ideological reasoning behind UK government policies is that the market is the only way to make public services 'efficient'. Isn't it time we talked about social efficiency, maximising public benefit rather than maximising profit?
