Home > Regional Trading Blocks

Regional Trading Blocks

Regional Trading Blocks
    Video Documentary: Global Crises, Regional Solutions
    May 2012
    TNI

    Activists from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe argue that regional integration is the only viable response to the convergence of economic, climate, food and energy crises.

    Financial Governance Beyond the Crisis
    October 2011
    Interview by Sofia T. Jarrin

    Dr. Pedro Paez talks about the creation of a new financial architecture in Latin America, based on principles of redistribution, environmental sustainability and social cohesion rather than market principles that dominated the old architecture.

    Climate Meetings Have Become Conferences of Polluters
    June 2011
    Patrick Bond

    Without serious mobilisation, Durban's UN climate conference, ‘COP
    17’ (Conference of Parties), looks doomed to be a conference of procrastinators threatening the planet and its peoples.

    Another missed opportunity
    March 2011
    Manuel Perez Rocha

    Obama's trip to Latin America: about gaining economic advantages, ignoring historical and recent diplomatic interferences and strategically placed critisism.

    Time for Europe to put human rights above commercial advantage
    March 2011
    Cecilia Olivet
     Paulina Novo

    Free trade or slave trade? How the EU's free trade agreements in Colombia and Peru reward human rights abuses, destroy livelihoods, promote land grabbing and strip governments of their sovereignty to regulate capital flows.

    Video: Emerging Powers: Allies or Rivals?
    January 2011
    Boris Kagarlitsky
     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.

    For a solidarity `Marshall Plan' with the Cuban Revolution!
    January 2011
    Atilio Boron

    Creating a special fund of solidarity with the Cuban Revolution would be an act of strict justice.

    The Global Economy in 2011: Recovery Recedes, Convulsion Looms
    January 2011
    Walden Bello

    As the U.S. and Europe appear to be headed for a deeper economic crisis, some analysts discern a “decoupling” of East Asia and other developing areas from the western economies.

    Emancipatory transformation and alternative development paths within and from regions of the South
    November 2010
    Dot Keet

    Alternative ‘regional’ South-South alliances and strategies hold out the
    most promising possibilities for shifting the global balance of power
    and creating living
    non-capitalist alternatives

    Obama’s Trip to India: Don’t Rush into a Bilateral Investment Treaty
    October 2010
    Sarah Anderson

    The U.S. and India should not sign a treaty that will only serve the short-term interests of large corporations, and undermine the authority of governments to protect their people from financial crisis.

    Syndicate content