Robin Broad, profesora de la American University, describe seis mecanismos con que la Vicepresidencia de Economía del Desarrollo (DEC) del Banco Mundial desempeña un papel de "mantenimiento del paradigma", privilegiando a individuos cuyo trabajo "sintoniza" con la ideología del libre mercado.... Read more
Unbeknownst to most who work on the World Bank, this institution is not only the main lender of public money in the world. It is also the world's largest development research body, centred in DEC1. DEC is important because it serves as a research department for other bilateral aid agencies and other multilateral development banks, which often follow the course laid out by the Bank. So too with... Read more
Quince años después de que el proceso de la globalización se nos vendiera como algo “irreversible”, éste parece haber alcanzado ya sus cotas más altas y está iniciando el descenso. Por Walden Bello.... Read more
A lot is at stake in the legal battle of the Swiss pharmaceutical multinational Novartis against India’s patents law: the people’s right to affordable medicines, preventing unethical monopolies in the healthcare system, and the sovereignty of national decision-making. Praful Bidwai reports.... Read more
Now is the time to rediscover John Maynard Keynes’s revolutionary ideas for an international trade organisation and adapt them to rebalance the world’s economies in the 21st century, argues Susan George.... Read more
Robin Broad has shown correctly that World Bank’s chief concern is “paradigm maintenance” - in other words, justification for Bank policies developed far away from the research department itself. Susan George defends Broad’s approach in the face of the World Bank’s attempt to discredit it.... Read more
For people in the South the recently deceased Milton Friedman will long be associated with two things: free-market reform in Chile and “structural adjustment” in the developing world. Although both policies created poverty, inequality and environmental crisis, they have been institutionalised so thoroughly, says Bello, that they continue to reign.... Read more
