Commentary and Analysis-2000

Why reform of the WTO is the wrong agenda
by Walden Bello

Jurassic fund: should developing countries push to decommission the IMF?
by Walden Bello

UNCTAD: time to lead, time to challenge the WTO
by Walden Bello

Davos 2000: global conspiracy or capitalist circus?
by Walden Bello

Davos 2000: an all-american show?
by Walden Bello

Davos 2000: has Asia really rebounded?
by Walden Bello

UNCTAD X: an opportunity lost?
by Walden Bello

Market access for LDCs: public relations disguised as development
by Aileen Kwa

UNCTAD security 'half-baked'
by Harrison George

Mr Moore: shallow and defensive at UNCTAD X
by Aileen Kwa

Who speaks for whom?
by Shalmali Guttal

It's time for 'uncivil' society to act
by Nicola Bullard

Euro-American rivalry poses challenge to asia and developing world
by Walden Bello

Meltzer report on Bretton Woods twins builds case for abolition but hesitates
by Walden Bello

No time for reform
by Patrick Bond

Can workers beat globalisation?
by David Bacon

Washington and the demise of the “third wave” of democratisation
by Walden Bello

Washington protests demoralize IMF and World Bank
by Walden Bello

Paradigms lost
by Nicola Bullard

ADB 2000: senior officials and internal documents paint institution in confusion
by Walden Bello

Payoff scandal hits ADB-backed power privatization in the Philippines
by Walden Bello

Struggle for a basic right to a livelihood
by Sanitsuda Ekachai

Will WTO chief be sacrificial lamb?
by Nicola Bullard

Reflections in the streets
by Ranee Hassarungsee

The AGM 2000: more losses than victories
by Chris Adams

Regional currency swap arrangement: A step towards Asian Monetary Fund?
by Walden Bello

Time for ADB to own up to its responsibility
by Jenina Joy Chavez-Malaluan

The many uses of poverty
by Shalmali Guttal

Australia and the Asian Development Bank in the Mekong region
by Charlie Pahlman

Dangerous liaisons: progressives, the right, and the anti-China trade campaign
by Walden Bello and Anuradha Mittal

Another one bites the dust: collateral damage in the battle for the Bank
by Nicola Bullard

Asian Monetary Fund revival?
by Kristen Nordhaug

The sledgehammer and the nut
by Harrison George

China: the country the west loves to hate
by Nicola Bullard

"Blowback:” a review Essay on an academic defector’s guide to America’s Asia policy
by Walden Bello

'Son of a commoner' faces the Assembly of the Poor
by Wipaphan Korkeatkachorn

The United Nations shows its true colours
by Nicola Bullard

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations: a preliminary autopsy
by Walden Bello

Venezuelan elections offer hope of real reform
by Mark Weisbrot

Civil society as global actor: promise and pitfalls
by Walden Bello

From Melbourne to Prague: the struggle for a deglobalized world
by Walden Bello

The armadillo and the chameleon: a cautionary tale
by Nicola Bullard

The IMF’s Asian legacy
by Jacques-chai Chomthongdi

The end of imagination: the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and poverty reduction
by Shalmali Guttal

All in the family:musical chairs in the neo-liberal establishment
by Chris Adams

With friends like this, who needs enemies
by Nicola Bullard

A World Bank staffer’s odyssey in Kafka’s Prague

The Prague castle debate: a few questions for Mr. Wolfensohn and Mr. Kohler
by Walden Bello

Tough crowd for IMF, World Bank leaders in Prague
by Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post

The dirty underside of the land of smiles: power company "guardians" burn protest village

Micro credit equals micro debt
by Chanida Chanyapate Bamford

Fallacies of the renegotiation of the Ecuadorian external debt
by Alberto Acosta

The turbulent and dismal record of World Bank structural adjustment lending in the Philippines
by Maria Teresa Diokno-Pascual

The success of being dangerous: resisting Free trade & investment regimes
by Gerard Greenfield

The WTO: boon or bane for the developing world?

Transparency and institutional issues a year after Seattle
by Aileen Kwa

The a la carte undertaking: a new form of special and differential treatment?
by Aileen Kwa

The Agreement on Agriculture: change requires a hero's journey
by Aileen Kwa

Thailand and ASEM: government’s interests and civil society’s hesitations
(Marco G. Mezzera), Article published on the website of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung: “ASED: Asia-Europe Dialogue”, 2000

Women and globalisation—some key issues
by Shalmali Guttal]

Transforming the global financial system: why it is no longer possible to "square the circle"
by Nicola Bullard

Trading the Environment
by Shalmali Guttal

G-8 summit set for japanese island that wants U.S. out
by Walden Bello

Struggle against military bases in Okinawa – Its history and current situation
by Arasaki Moriteru

The human rights of children and women under the U.S. military administration
by Azat Eiko

The challenge from the Korean peninsula:The North-South summit and the United States in East Asia
by Samsung Lee

Club 51: insecurity and global uncertainty
by Kuan-Hsing Chen

Security : a comprehensive approach
by Marco Mezzera and Chirawatana Charoonpatarapong

Women's response to militaristic security:the case of Aceh women
by Melani Budianta

From hegemonic insecurity to peoples' security: an overview
by Mushakoji Kinhide

Redefine and practice our peace, our security, if they do theirs
by Muto Ichiyo

People's perspective of history
by Taira Osamu

Truth, postmodernism and historical revsionism in Japan : reflections on Kokumin No Rekishi
by Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Towards a just, comprehensive, and sustainable peace in the Asia-Pacific region
by Walden Bello

Private profits at public cost
by Shalmali Guttal

Keeping debtors in place: debt relief under the enhanced HIPC intitiative
by Shalmali Guttal

The Asian Development Bank: shape up or ship out
by Shalmali Guttal