By Jayati GhoshThe past decade has been one in which export-led economic strategies have come to be seen as the most successful, driven by the apparent success of two countries in particular - China and Germany. In fact, the export-driven model of growth has much...
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Ten Key Questions on Climate Change
Climate change is a political and scientific conundrum. From the denialism of the George Bush era to the neo-liberal imperatives of carbon trading, the subject is confusing, and an activist agenda is sometimes a navigational minefield. David Fig helps Amandla! to...
Editorial: Stop speculating our jobs away
The G20, a forum constructed by the powerfully rich G8 countries, by drawing in the so-called emerging economies of China, India, Brazil and which also includes South Africa, met at the end of June to tackle the on-going global financial crisis and the threat of a...
International issues in the Iranian crisis
25 June 2009 President Obama’s declaration, in his June 23 press conference, that he was “appalled and outraged” by the Iranian government’s reaction to protests over Iran’s presidential election results represents an escalation of US pressure on the clerical regime...
A Failed System
The World Crisis of Capitalist Globalization and its Impact on China In referring in my title here to “A Failed System” I do not of course mean that capitalism as a system is in any sense at an end. Rather I mean by “failed system” a global economic and social order...


