Mar 7, 2008 | Articles
When it first became part of the English vocabulary in the early 1990s, globalization was supposed to be the wave of the future. Fifteen years ago, the writings of globalist thinkers such as Kenichi Ohmae and Robert Reich celebrated the advent of the emergence of the...
Mar 7, 2008 | Articles
The much publicized wooing of African countries by China exemplified by the China-Africa meeting that took place in Beijing in the first week of November brings up the question of how China is faring in its economic relations with its closest neighbors? Southeast...
Mar 7, 2008 | Articles
Dale Wen's short book China Copes with Globalization: a Mixed Review [PDF], published by the International Forum on Globalization, is probably the best comprehensive introduction to the environmental and social impacts of China's breakneck industrialization...
Mar 7, 2008 | Articles
A new stage in the evolution of the global justice movement was reached with the inauguration of the World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in January 2001. The WSF was the brainchild of social movements loosely associated with the Workers’ Party (PT)...
Mar 6, 2008 | Articles
While economists laud the recently deceased Milton Friedman for being “a champion of freedom whose work transformed economics and changed the world,” as a full-page advertisement in the New York Times put it, people in the South will remember the...
