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The Bretton Woods Twins in the Era of COVID-19: Time for an Exit Strategy for the Global South?

As they mark their 76th year, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have been presented with a grand opportunity, not to save the world, but to salvage their tattered reputation. The Fund enters the annual IMF-World Bank meetings with a big image problem....
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COVID-19, Distorted Development, and Degrowth

The following paper was presented at the Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute's Webinar "Sustainable Social and Economic Recovery after COVID-19" on September 17, 2020. What I’d like to do is focus on some economic vulnerabilities exposed by COVID-19 and...
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The subversion of the Philippines’ Indigenous People’s Rights Act

The following paper was presented under the title The Philippines’ Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act of 1997: Challenges to Realizing the Full Potential of a Progressive Law at a discussion on the crafting of a law to advance the rights of indigenous people in Thailand,...
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Why the Duterte regime could fall victim to COVID-19

People expected a message of hope from his State of the Nation Address, but the Philippine president instead self-destructed against the background of a public health disaster, a collapsing economy, and a generational rebellion. In his fifth State of the Nation (SONA)...
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A Siamese Tragedy

Mar 6, 2008 |

The military coup in Thailand is the second high-profile collapse of a democracy in the developing world in the last...

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