>Download PDF

Remember the World Bank, that global "development" institution based in Washington, D.C., that dispenses billions of dollars a year to poorer nations with the declared intent of ending global poverty? We -- and many of you -- spent decades protesting the World Bank and documenting the bank's projects and policies that exacerbated economic, social and environmental problems. In the United State... Read more

Beginning in the 1980s, a "Washington Consensus" that free markets were the solution to poverty dominated development theory, policy, and practice around the world. Today, just as faith in deregulated markets has evaporated in the nightmare on Wall Street, so too is the long reign of market fundamentalism (or neoliberalism) ending in the development arena. And, a debate over the best route to... Read more

Regarded as one of the leading experts on Philippine trade and agriculture issues, Riza Bernabe was interviewed by Walden Bello on the latest collapse of the WTO "Doha Round" trade negotiations.... Read more

We, representatives of peasant organizations, women, migrants, workers, urban and rural poor, fisherfolks, social movements and civil society organizations from East and Southeast Asia call for the rejection of the Doha Round.... Read more

Al mismo tiempo que el consenso global está formando por una re-regulación del sector financiero, los negociadores de los países desarrollados siguen presionando a los países en desarrollo para hacer acuerdos en materia de servicios que liberalicen drásticamente su sector financiero.Desesperado por cerrar un nuevo tratado global comercial, el jefe de la Organización Mundial de Comercio (OMC),... Read more

Mientras el mundo está todavía evaluando uno de los choques más violentos jamás sufridos por los mercados financieros internacionales y todavía no se han instrumentado las medidas para evitar futuras crisis financieras, los países en desarrollo tienen que ser precavidos frente a los peligros asociados a la ulterior liberalización de sus sectores financieros.En la primavera de 2008, durante los... Read more

Just as a global consensus is forming around strongly re-regulating the financial sector, developed country negotiators at the WTO are continuing to press developing countries for a services agreement that would drastically liberalise their financial sectors.... Read more

Paper completed 30 August 2001 to be presented at the Conference on Reshaping Globalisation: Multilateral Dialogues and New Policy Initiatives Sponsored by the Central European University, a project of George Soros's Open Society Foundation Sesgo y términos de referencia Los editores pidieron que mi contribución a este importante número de Foreign Affairs en Español tratara de "temas fundam... Read more

As the world is still assessing one of the most violent shocks in international financial markets ever, and measures to avoid future financial crises are still not in place, developing countries should be cautious of dangers associated with further liberalisation of their financial sectors.... Read more