Ochenta personas poseen el cincuenta por ciento del producto mundial bruto, según afirmó el profesor Bernardo Kliksberg en una conferencia pronunciada la semana pasada (abc, 11/3/15).
One week before the official Asia-Europe government meeting (ASEM) gathers in Milan, over 400 people from 42 countries in Europe and Asia gathered at the 10th Asia-Europe Peoples forum (AEPF) to present their demands and recommendations.
Swedish energy company Vattenfall filed request for arbitration at the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), after Germany’s decision to phase out nuclear energy.
Susan George chairs the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. She says the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement could give powerful companies the right to challenge domestic laws which restrict their future profits.
A LEADING international political economist has warned that democracy is being damaged by the insidious creep of transnational corporations into government policy and their refusal to adopt country-by-country accounting practices, which have helped them avoid taxes.
Susan George, Iñaki Gabilondo, Ricardo García Zaldívar
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Resumen de la presentación del libro El Informe Lugano II: Esta vez, vamos a liquidar la democracia, de Susan George, con Iñaki Gabilondo y Ricardo García Zaldívar (Attac España).
Una útil guía de bolsillo que explica cómo la crisis de Wall Street se vio agravada por las políticas de la UE y cómo ha enriquecido al 1% de la población en detrimento del 99%, y apunta a posibles soluciones que priorizan a las personas y el medio ambiente por encima de los beneficios empresariales.
A useful pocket guide on how a crisis made in Wall Street was made worse by EU policies, how it has enriched the 1% to the detriment of the 99%, and outlining some possible solutions that prioritise people and the environment above corporate profits.
Across the world, citizens and social movements are mounting strong and effective campaigns to fight the environmental and social abuses of transnational corporations.
¿Quiénes son el 1% de la población mundial? ¿Qué compañías manejan? ¿Cómo eluden sus responsabilidades? Estos ilustrativos infográficos del TNI ponen de manifiesto los costes sociales y medioambientales del poder corporativo mundial.
Who are the global 1%? What companies do they run? How do they escape accountability? Check out TNI's powerful infographic displays that expose the social and environmental costs of global corporate power.
The Davos class run our major institutions, know exactly what they want, and are well organized, but they have weaknesses too. For they are wedded to an ideology that isn't working and they have virtually no ideas nor imagination to resolve this.
El hermético y lucrativo mundo del arbitraje internacional sobre inversiones está enriqueciendo a un pequeño grupo de bufetes de abogados, que promueven activamente litigios contra Estados y luchan por impedir que se produzcan cambios en el injusto régimen internacional de inversiones.
New research published by the Tax Justice Network shows that tax evasion costs 145 countries, representing over 98% of world GDP, more than US$3.1 trillion annually.
The secretive and lucrative world of international investment arbitration has enriched a small coterie of multi-billion dollar international firms, which actively promote and even help finance litigations against states and have fought fiercely to prevent changes to an unjust international investment regime.
The ancient discussion about the purposes of wealth and the conflict between oligarchy – rule of the rich – and democracy – the rule of the demos/the people comes to the fore once again with the Occupy protests.
