Deglobalisation
Deglobalisation is the flagship program of Focus. Arising out of a felt need to articulate alternatives to neo liberal globalisation and capitalism, it spans practically all the Focus programs. It has 4 main components: Trade, Finance, Alternative regionalisms and Critical Discourse on Alternatives.
In the deglobalisation program our priorities are: monitoring the financial crisis and the policies of International Financial Institutions, finding alternatives to free trade and building alternative paradigms for sustainable development.
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Wall Street Excess and Main Street Distress: the Apple Connection
Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 21:04
By Walden Bello*Foreign Policy in Focus
Apple’s march to market supremacy has been accomplished at tremendous cost to both American and Chinese workers.
Ever since the beginning of the current global economic crisis, the focus of both critical analysis and public odium has been speculative capital. In the populist narrative, it was the breathtaking shenanigans of the banks in an atmosphere of deregulation that led to the economic collapse. The “financial economy,” characterized as parasitic and bad,...
Germany’s Social Democrats And The European Crisis
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 15:21
by Walden Bello (FPIF)
Germany towers over Europe like a colossus. Its economy is the biggest in the European Union, accounting for 20 percent of the EU’s gross domestic product. While most of Europe’s economies are stagnating, Germany’s will have grown by some 2.9 percent in 2011. It boasts the lowest unemployment rate, 5.5 percent, of Europe’s major economies, compared to those of France (9.5 percent), the United Kingdom (8.3 percent), and Italy (8.1 percent).
In many ways, Germany is like Japan. Both...
Seven Billion ... And Rising
Friday, November 4, 2011 - 02:31
By Walden Bello
The world’s population surpassed 7 billion on October 31. But except for perhaps the anti-family planning lobby, this was a milestone that few were in a mood to celebrate.
Concerns about overpopulation were present when the world hit the 6 billion mark in 1999, but they were subdued in that era of growth and — at least in the North — optimism. There was a sense then that although there would be major hurdles along the way, the world’s future could only get brighter. ...
Food, Livelihoods & Climate Change in the Mekong Region: Summary Report of International Workshop
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 12:40
From August 9-11, 2010, Focus on the Global South, the Foundation for Ecological Recovery/TERRA, World Rainforest Movement (WRM), International Rivers, Bank Information Centre and the Thai Working Group on Climate Justice (TCJ), organised a workshop entitled “Food, Livelihoods and Climate Change in the Mekong Region”. The workshop was held at the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, and attended by 52 representatives of local networks and civil society organizations from Myanmar, Lao PDR, Thailand,...
Why Al-Qaeda Won
Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 18:33
By Walden Bello (originally published in Foreign Policy in Focus)With the tenth anniversary of the crime that was 9/11, the question inevitably crops up: who won, the United States or al-Qaeda? According to the politically correct answer, although al-Qaeda has been decimated, it has been a Pyrrhic victory for Washington. In defeating al-Qaeda, the U.S. government engaged in many unnecessary violations of human rights and due process that diminished America in the eyes of both its citizens and the world....
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