AlJazeera English ... Opinion
The too-quiet American
Obama's strict stance on US exports may be hurting the economy more than helping.
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AlJazeera English ... Opinion
Why free trade matters
Free trade has an economic and moral case - as it promotes not just prosperity, but also peace.
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Open file 152
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AlJazeera English ... Opinion
Pity the world's financial policymakers
Solving the current economic malaise involves swapping short-term pain for long-term gain, a tradeoff
politicians fear.
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Libya ... People
Abdel Fattah Younes: Libya’s rebel chief who never won trust
Libya’s rebel chief who never won trust
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Open file 154
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Money, Banking and Financial Services
Letting Bankers Walk
An essay by Paul Krugman about the banking crisis and regulatory failure
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Open file 155
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Accountability
South Africa ... National dialogue on accountability
Thuli Madonsela on Friday called for a national dialogue on accountability
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Open file 156
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South Africa
Zuma makes infrastructure a priority
President Jacob Zuma to lead big new infrastructure push ... just politics or is it serious?
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Open file 157
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Accountability
South Africa ... On accountability
Government accountability to the people key to a functioning democracy
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Open file 158
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Economic Dynamics
A view from Middle America
Is being poor a choice? It's a circus out there, isn't it?
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Open file 159
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USA ... Economic Policy
The 2011 debt ceiling debate
What the debt ceiling fight won't fix ... Putting off the crucial decisions once more
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Open file 160
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AlJazeera English ... Opinion
Fighting back against the CIA drone war
Human rights lawyers and activists in the UK and Pakistan are on a quest for justice and transparency.
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Open file 161
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AlJazeera English ... Opinion
Genocidal politics and the Somali famine
The blame for Somalia's devastating famine should not be levelled at the weather, but at geopolitics
and armed militia.
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USA Economics and Politics
Obama Should Raise the Debt Ceiling on His Own
President Obama should announce that he will raise the debt ceiling unilaterally if he cannot reach a deal with Congress.
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Economic Dynamics
The Issue of GDP ... The Steady State Economy
CASSE ... Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
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AlJazeera English ...Opinion
Crash club: when sputtering economies collide
If current trends continue, China, the European Union, and the US are headed towards a synchronised global depression.
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Open file 165
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Al Jazeera English ... Opinion
The kabuki play on Capitol Hill
The real deficit in Washington is one of political morality and honesty.
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Open file 166
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AlJazeera English ... Features
About Bahrain
Pakistani troops aid Bahrain's crackdown
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Open file 167
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Development Issues
Community Centric Sustainable Development (CCSD)
George Kent's message asks about who will do the planning and to whom will the planners be accountable.
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TVM History
The old AfriFund Wiki from 2003
About the Tr-Ac-Net Wiki and the role of information in imrpvong development performance
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Open file 169
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Development Issues
Poverty
MADAGASCAR: Sex for school fees
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Development Issues
Drought, Famine, Starvation and Death
SOMALIA: Time for immediate action on famine - UN
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Open file 171
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Development Issues
Crisis Mapping is too little too late.
The dysfunction of major international institutions and governments needs to be addressed as well.
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Open file 172
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People
D'Maris Coffman
Director at Centre for Financial History Cambridge, United Kingdom Higher Education
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Open file 173
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Development Issues
People-Centered Economic Development
Dialog with Jeff Mowatt, Director, People-Centered Economic Development in the Keynes101rewind discussion
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Open file 174
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The Failure of Metrics and Maths
Sorting out failed MBA modelling
Some dialog from Chris McRae, Alan Rayner and Peter Chellen
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Open file 175
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Government Policy
The Warfare and Welfare Economy
The biggest problem is the relationship between money flowing and value realized
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Open file 176
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Labor Economics
An essay by Robert Reich
The deal between the President, Democratic, and Republican leaders is no victory over
partisanship understands neither economics nor politics.
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Open file 177
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US Politics
The Debt Ceiling Debate
The Debt Ceiling Debate ... Senator Sanders' Statement on Senate Debt Vote
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Open file 178
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US Economic Performance
Getting economic history right
The plain fact is that corporate profits are the only area of the US economy to recover since 2009. Any other claim is a lie
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AlJazeera English ... Fault Lines
US Wealth Concentrated in the Top 1%
With 1% of Americans controlling 40% of the country's wealth, we examine the gap between the rich and the rest.
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AlJazeera English ... Opinion
The future of economic growth
As major economies face hardships, will developing countries be able to step up and
carry the global economy?
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Open file 181
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AlJazeera English ... Opinion
The biggest threat to Western values
Multiculturalism does not pose a significant danger to Western values - but neoliberalism does.
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Open file 182
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AlJazeera English ... Opinion
How the US media marginalises dissent
The US media derides views outside of the mainstream as 'un-serious', and our democracy suffers as a result.
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AlJazeera English ... Opinion
Chinese Trains ... Unsafe at any speed?
China has applied for patents for its high-speed trains, but the technology may have been
pirated from the Japanese
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Open file 184
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AlJazeera English ... Europe
European bank leaders debate debt crisis
Declining bond prices in Spain and Italy may prompt the European Central Bank to resume buying government bonds.
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Open file 185
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AlJazeera English ... Business
Asian markets plunge on crisis fears
The fall follows a sharp selloff on US and European markets amid fears of another world economic downturn.
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Open file 186
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AlJazeera English ... Opinion
Iranian terrorist group has close US allies
The Mujahedin-e Khalq, which the US designates a terrorist group, has the backing of prominent American conservatives.
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Open file 187
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AlJazeera English ... Opinion
Let America be America again
What's happened to America's capacity for moral vision expressed in Lincoln's second inaugural address?
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Open file 188
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Global Fisheries
Greenpeace and Environment
Greenpeace Africa Calls on EU for Greater Equity ... Cries of hypocrisy as new fishing decisions are prepared
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Open file 189
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AlJazeera English ... Features
Earth's systems in rapid decline
Overpopulation is causing huge losses in biodiversity, and 'protected areas' such as national
parks aren't working.
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Open file 190
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AlJazeera English ... Opinion
The new grammar of power
In a world in which risks can easily spread across national borders, more international cooperation is needed.
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Open file 191
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AlJazeera English ... Counting the Cost
Debt, default and downgrade
Who is to blame for Italy's debt crisis - and how will it affect the global economy?
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Open file 192
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US Energy Policy
Change Petition to Stop the Keystone XL pipeline.
We. Must. Stop. This ... Tell President Obama: Stop the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Open file 193
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AlJazeera English ... Business
Markets slide on credit uncertainty
European markets remain volatile and Asian bourses close sharply down despite ECB moves to stabilise debt uncertainty.
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Open file 194
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Microfinance and Social Business
Part of the microfinance dialog
Rick Wartzman, Drucker Institute, Interviews Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank 2008
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Open file 195
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AlJazeera English ... Opinion
Protest movements teach economics to bankers
In order to avoid continued economic malaise, the European Central Bank should raise inflation rate targets.
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Open file 196
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AlJazeera English ... Opinion
A failed global recovery
Liquidity injections and bailouts serve only one purpose - to buy time. Yet time is not the answer.
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Open file 197
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Issues ... Worker Conditions
Tell Target: End the abuse at 'rape factory' in Jordan
Tell Target to end the abuses at what's becoming known as the 'rape factory' in Jordan.
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Open file 198
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AlJazeera English ... Opinion
Stiglitz ... a contagion of bad ideas
Financial distress isn't the only thing that moves easily across borders - so do misguided economic policies.
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Open file 199
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Business in the USA
Verizon telephone workers strike
Verizon Communications’ workers have gone on strike for the first time in 11 years
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