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Despite much optimism, there are clear indications that BRICS [1] lacks the capacity to function as a powerful and innovative new force in the realm of global politics and governance. Can BRICS emerge as a collective that will reject the current neoliberal order and...
Abstracts Gender Concerns in Climate Change need serious attention of all interested in sustainable development. Women in many developing countries are responsible for climatically sensitive tasks such as securing food, water and energy which ensure the life and...
Far from wallowing in squalor, the super-rich have been raking it in since the rest of the world had to radically downscale its life expectations in the aftermath of the Great Recession. In 2011 total global wealth exceeded figures recorded before 2007, although...
Far from wallowing in squalor, the super-rich have been raking it in since the rest of the world had to radically downscale its life expectations in the aftermath of the Great Recession. In 2011 total global wealth exceeded figures recorded before 2007, although...
The high-level UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, last week was called an "epic failure" by Greenpeace and other environmental organizations, their disappointments reminiscent of the "epic failure" of the UN Climate Conference in Durban, South Africa only half...
Crisis for whom? Why after all this is it business more or less as usual? Because those who benefit think they can get away with it. Where there is greater ground level resistance – for example in Greece, significant political forces have put forward specific...
It should be obvious in this discussion that our goal is definitely not to contribute to the ‘politically correct’ rhetoric bandied about incessantly which calls for some ‘decrease’ in African population because we do not believe that Africa, in the first instance, is...
The Unemployed People’s Movement rejects the Youth Wage Subsidy as a solution to the unemployment crisis that is leaving millions of young people without a future. We note that there has been a concerted attempt by big business, their academic and media allies and the...
The world has to reinvent growth as it is costing it the Earth June 5, the World Environment Day, is meant to celebrate the idea of the environment and put it into practice. It is a day to take stock of where we stand and where we should be headed in future. The theme...