Walden Bello
Activist • Academic • Journalist • Writer
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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...
COVID-19, Distorted Development, and Degrowth
The following paper was presented at the Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute's Webinar "Sustainable Social...
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...
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...
The burning question is not if Duterte will go, but how
originally posted on Rappler 'Even Duterte’s usually aggressive DDS true believers and paid trolls are confused and...
The Far Right: Formidable but not Unbeatable
By Walden Bello* The Covid-19 pandemic has frozen much social and economic life throughout the world, but it has not...