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The West Has Been Hoarding More Than Vaccines

MANILA — I’ve had my first Covid-19 vaccine jab, drawn from the limited supply of the AstraZeneca doses that has made its way to the developing world. As a senior, I’m part of a so-called priority sector eligible to receive it in the Philippines, a country where less...

PH gov’t can be part of solution in Myanmar

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Reading Piketty II: Property, Ideology, and the Mystery of the Missing John Locke

Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology is a wide-ranging exploration of the origins, maintenance, and persistence of inequality that spans 1042 pages.  In the interest of making the French economist more accessible, Focus on the Global South came up with Reading...

Central front of the new Cold War

How US and China stack up on the strategic front in the Asia-Pacific region During the Trump administration, there were great worries that the conflict between China and the US would not stop at simply being a trade war, but that it could at some point spill over into...