The Africa That Pushes Back
Handouts and Hollywood celebrities obscure the real work being done in Africa today.
Green Paper Gold
Here’s an innovative way to tackle the economic crisis and global warming in one sweeping proposal.
Charting a Progressive International Financial Agenda
We’ve got the best opportunity in 60 years to create a more pro-people global financial order.
Drawing the Future From the Past
Since the end to the U.S. wars in Southeast Asia, many other wars have been waged, in other parts of the world, in new terrain, villages, and communities. Yet, the wars in Southeast Asia lingers.
Bailout for the World’s Poorest People
With the world’s most impoverished people bearing the brunt of a crisis they had no role in creating, donor countries should come up with a $300 billion package to cushion the economic shock.
The IMF is Dead; Long Live the IMF
Without bothering to learn from the mistakes that until recently had it desperately seeking a new mission, the IMF again is turning into the world’s financial firefighter.
How Badly Can the ‘Experts’ Ruin the Planet?
Look no further than the World Bank to see how many economic, social, and environmental problems so-called experts can make worse.
Dirty is the New Clean
A Critique of the World Bank’s Strategic Framework for Development and Climate Change.
The World Bank Takes the Money and Runs from Chad
After funding a predictable boondoggle of a pipeline, the international lender hightails it out of an impoverished African nation.
Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development: Lessons from the Americas
Sarah Anderson, Director of IPS Global Economy Project, will be among the speakers discussing a new report: “Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development: Lessons from the Americas” at this event sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
Other speakers will include:
Eduardo Zepeda, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Liane Schalatek, Heinrich Böll Foundation
Kevin Gallagher, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Boston University, Research Associate, Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University
Andres Lopez, Director of the Centro de Investigaciones para la Transformación, and Professor of Economics, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Eva Paus, Professor of Economics and the Carol Hoffmann Collins Director of the McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives at Mount Holyoke College
Nicola Borregaard, Director of the National Energy Efficiency Program for the Government of Chile and advisor to the Chilean Minister of Economy
Maryse Robert is chief of the Trade Section in the Department of Trade and Tourism at the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS)
For a copy of the report and background papers see:
http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/WorkingGroup_FDI.htm
Please RSVP to Evelina Yeghiyan at EYeghiyan@CarnegieEndowment.org by noon on Wednesday, June 18.
Climate Equity Campaign
A Critical Look at NAFTA Past, Present and Future
Linking Agriculture, Development, and Migration.
Rwanda and the War on Terrorism
A common flaw in U.S. foreign policy is the politicization of foreign assistance. Whether Republican or Democratic, U.S. administrations allow narrowly defined “national interests” – instead of needs, priorities, and realities in a given country – to dictate foreign assistance. And Rwanda is an excellent case in point.
Sovereignty Through Decentralization
To bring development, reconciliation, and stability to conflict areas, it’s better to think local.
Valentine Mitiev
Valentine Mitiev, expert on regional minority issues