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Published in:ourEconomyDecolonising the economy
A new ourEconomy series focusing on the global economy and global justice.
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Published in:ourEconomyTransfer (mis)pricing, the jewel in every multinational enterprise’s crown
How developing countries lose $3 billion every day through an accounting trick that allows corporations to avoid paying tax.
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Published in:ourEconomyImperialism in a coffee cup
Why is it that just 1p of a £2.50 cup of coffee goes to the farmer who cultivated and harvested the coffee beans?
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Published in:ourEconomyAn agenda for a new internationalism
The UK Labour Party's International Social Forum kickstarted a much needed debate about global justice.
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Published in:ourEconomyReclaiming the commons through state ownership? Maybe not
Transnational state capital can be just as harmful as its private counterparts. We need local, democratic and...
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Published in:ourEconomyTurkey does imperialism: Turkish foreign policy in the Middle East
To understand Turkey’s actions in the Middle East, we need to grasp its precarious place in world capitalism.
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Published in:ourEconomyOutsourcing exploitation: global labor-value chains
Through their control over supply chains, multinationals based in the global north exploit workers in the global south.
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Published in:ourEconomyThe Indonesia-Netherlands tax treaty is one of Indonesia’s biggest tax leaks, new research shows
Public services and the people who depend on them are losing out to tax avoiding multinationals.
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Published in:ourEconomyMicrofinance has been a nightmare for the global south. Sri Lanka shows that there is an alternative
Women’s groups and the co-operative movement are leading the way out of the debt trap.
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Published in:ourEconomy: Opinion'Development' is colonialism in disguise
Other worlds are possible - the Pluriverse is breathing.
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Published in:ourEconomyLatin America’s right-wing leaders are fueling underdevelopment
We need progressive industrial policy if we are to solve the region's economic woes.
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Published in:ourEconomy: OpinionThe climate strikes are about so much more than green colonialism
Solutions to the environmental crisis won’t come in the shape of a battery - they come in the shape of justice,...
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Published in:ourEconomyPost-capitalists must understand the role of migration in global capitalism
Real transformation can only happen if those in the global north join forces with migrants and exploited workers in...
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Published in:ourEconomyMining giants like BHP pretend to be solving climate change. But in Latin America, they are deadly.
Communities around the world are resisting BHP's neo-colonial mega-mining projects. Climate activists in the global...
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Published in:ourEconomyThe world is in a revolutionary moment – how can the global left be a serious player?
We need not one but two internationales – a ‘movement of movements’ and a World Party.
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Published in:ourEconomyWestern style ‘democracy’ in Africa is just a way of pushing the neoliberal agenda
The region has its own rich democratic traditions to draw from.
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Published in:ourEconomyDebating the rise of state capitalism: a nuanced approach
The state can behave just as badly corporations. But it can also play a positive role in development.
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Published in:ourEconomyCelebrating poverty: the IMF in Egypt
Under IMF reforms, a third of Egyptians are living in poverty. But western institutions are celebrating their ‘success’.
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Published in:ourEconomy: OpinionDevelopment: a failed project
It’s time to abandon development and think about postdevelopment instead.
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Published in:ourEconomy: OpinionDiversify and decolonise your holiday reading list
Hunker down this winter with the D-Econ alternative economics reading list.
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Published in:ourEconomy: OpinionHow the commodification of knowledge is creating a new age of colonialism
By becoming passive consumers of knowledge produced in the global north, developing countries are slowly being recolonized.
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Published in:ourEconomyFinance for renewable energy in Africa follows colonial roots
Investments into renewable energy in Africa are critical. But they need to take local ownership and participation seriously.
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Published in:ourEconomy: OpinionHow climate policy stops at the border
The Port of Rotterdam boasts of its green credentials in the Netherlands but invests in fossil fuel mega projects abroad.
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Published in:ourEconomy: OpinionHow the cost of our clothes can be measured in human lives lost
Recent factory fires in India show how the world’s biggest brands are still profiting from deadly working conditions.
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Published in:ourEconomy: OpinionIn a new world order driven by AI, we need to rewrite the rules of data capitalism
In the scramble for AI-led development, what would global algorithmic justice look like?
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Published in:ourEconomy: OpinionHow to make AI work for people and planet
Whether AI will be a weapon of social injustice or an agent of positive change depends on the stories we choose to weave.
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Published in:ourEconomy: OpinionWhy coronavirus could spark a capitalist supernova
There is no magic money tree – the ‘rescue packages’ aim to rescue a rotten system, and won’t work.
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Published in:ourEconomy: OpinionIf we want to tackle global inequality, we need better economic theories
Dependency theory, though dismissed by mainstream economics, can help us find deeper solutions to global economic problems.
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Published in:ourEconomyDecolonize your pandemic reading list
From Zimbabwe to China, trade deals to odious debt, get a new perspective on the pandemic this lockdown.
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Published in:ourEconomyUnder cover of the pandemic, stealth land grabs are ongoing in India
Indigenous women are on the front lines of resistance against forest evictions.
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Published in:PodcastsourVoices podcast: Decolonising the global economy
Is our global economic order rigged to produce inequality and underdevelopment?
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Published in:ourEconomy: OpinionThe clash of capitalisms?
We're constantly told that state capitalism is back. But these narratives are far from innocent.
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Published in:PodcastsPodcast: Is capitalism racist?
With Black Lives Matter protests raging around the world, the latest ourVoices documentary asks how we can build an...
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Published in:ourEconomy: OpinionFormerly colonized people can’t breathe. And the IMF and World Bank are to blame
It’s time for a #FeministBailout based not on profit-maximization but care, respect for eco-systems, and solidarity.
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Published in:ourEconomy: OpinionIn the midst of the pandemic, why is the IMF still pushing austerity on the Global South?
Despite its own warnings, the International Monetary Fund is risking another ‘lost decade’ for development.
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Published in:ourEconomy: OpinionThe dirty side of development finance
This week, all the public development banks in the world are gathering to make post-Covid plans. But guess who...