She explains how corporations have taken over all branches of the government as well as international governance, in particular through trade treaties such as the proposed EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
Ghana finally yielded to pressure from multilateral donors in 2006 and privatised its urban water utilities. The Government’s experiment with what it conveniently referred to as “private sector participation”, and not privatisation, was short-lived. This was despite considerable high hopes and expectations fostered by the Ghanaian media as well as very well-resourced backers and promoters of... Read more
Two years after Occupy gave voice to popular anger at growing inequality worldwide, the issue of the 1% versus the 99% continues to top the political agenda. At times, though, this takes a very incongruous form, and no more so than in January 2014 when multi-millionaires gathering at the luxurious ski retreat of Davos, Switzerland declared inequality their chief concern. The World Economic... Read more
Books and blogs that debunk development orthodoxies regularly roll off the presses and show up on websites. Some of them knock down straw men, trot out hobby horses or serve up counter-mythologies. Reclaiming Development, however, avoids those pitfalls. A closely-argued critique of neoliberal economic policy, this is debunking at its best. Republished now, ten years after its first appearance,... Read more
A vitally important issue that has altogether fallen off India’s economic-political discourse is growing economic inequality. In part, this is because of the continuing hangover of the euphoria generated by economic liberalisation, and the growth of social-Darwinist ideas and moral indifference towards the poor within our burgeoning middle class. In part, this also reflects India’s Rightward... Read more
In 1999 I reviewed Susan George’s original Lugano Report, a Swiftian satire in which a shadowy group of advisers gather in the luxurious Swiss resort to recommend the best ways to preserve capitalism in the new millennium. In How To Win the Class War she reconvenes her fictional working party to consider developments during the past decade and make suggestions as to how to further protect the... Read more
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15 September 2013 marked the 5th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers seen as the beginning of the world's biggest financial crisis. One could reasonably expect by now that governments would have enacted some significant reforms to stop it ever happening again. Instead for the financial sector it is as if the crisis never happened.... Read more
