MARGINALISED and dominated economically by the Global North, developing countries must urgently cooperate to better strive for their shared interests in achieving world peace and sustainable development. ...
THE World Bank expects the international economic slowdown to be the worst in over four decades. This is mainly due to powerful Western nations’ contractionary macroeconomic and geopolitical policies.
IMPERIALISM continues to dominate the world. Globalisation is losing to some of its anti-theses, but imperialism still rules, increasingly by law, albeit in changing even contradictory ways.
THE IMF warns of a decade ahead of “tepid growth” and “popular discontent”, with the poorest economies worst off. However, as with inaction on Gaza, little is being done multilaterally to avert the imminent ...
RICH nations’ climate hypocrisy is accelerating global heating, pushing the planet closer to irreversible catastrophe, with its worst consequences borne by the poorest, both countries and peoples.
THE International Monetary Fund number two recommends non-alignment as the best option for developing countries in the second Cold War as geopolitics threatens already dismal prospects for the world economy ...
THE World Bank insists commercial finance is necessary for achieving economic recovery and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but does little to ensure profit-hungry commercial finance serves the ...
Refusal to temporarily suspend several World Trade Organisation (WTO) intellectual property (IP) provisions to enable much faster and broader progress in addressing the Covid-19 pandemic should be grounds ...
ACCESS to Covid-19 vaccines for many developing countries and most of their people will have to wait as the powerful and better- off secure earlier access regardless of need or urgency.
