Walden Bello
Activist • Academic • Journalist • Writer
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How to Manufacture a Global Food Crisis: Lessons from the Philippines, Mexico, and Africa
When tens of thousands of people staged demonstrations in Mexico last year to protest a 60 percent increase in the price of...
Selected Economic, Political, and Social Trends in Asia in a Global Context
- Rise of China and, to a less extent, India as central event in Asia over the last 20 years. - China’s relation to...
The Global Financial System in Crisis
Owing to the devastating impact of uncontrolled gyrations and permutations of speculative capital, there were calls for...
The Economist Debate Series: Freedom and its digital discontents
The first brought us the gem that was central planning; and the second, the wondrous neoliberal economics that has reigned...
Nothing to Gain, Everything to Lose
The negotiations leading up to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial in Hong Kong are apparently getting nowhere....
The Tragedy of Contemporary Democracy in the South
It is now 25 years since the beginning of the great wave of democratisation that swept away dictatorships from Latin...