Articles
Economy and ecology
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30.05.2022
Fossil fuel companies, Big Pharma, Big Tech, and agribusinesses have all reaped huge profits in the past two years. It’s time to rein them in
Economy and ecology
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28.03.2022
Carbon taxes disproportionally hit the poor — both in the Global North and South. Instead, climate policies should tackle the consumption of the rich
Economy and ecology
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17.03.2022
Russia’s invasion has led to increases in oil and food prices, further harming developing countries struggling to recover from the pandemic
Economy and ecology
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21.02.2022
The fiscal response of rich countries has caused an uneven global economic recovery. The IMF’s reserve asset could counteract this development
Future of social democracy
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24.01.2022
Inequalities are as extreme as they were at the peak of western imperialism — with deadly consequences. But the solutions are within our grasp
Economy and ecology
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20.01.2022
Food-price inflation – driven by supply chain problems, climate change, and financial speculation – has hit the world’s poorest the hardest
Future of social democracy
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17.11.2021
The pandemic and the environmental crisis have exposed the cruelty of our economic system. A feminist approach could be the answer
Economy and ecology
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20.09.2021
With the worsening food shortage worldwide, this week’s UN Food Systems Summit has to deliver more than refinancing rotten agricultural projects
Economy and ecology
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19.08.2021
The perfect storm of Covid-19 and climate change will create more instability. But international cooperation can still avert the worst-case scenario
Economy and ecology
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11.06.2021
While the G7 tax compromise has been hailed as ‘historic’, it would do little for countries in the Global South. But changes are still possible
Democracy and society
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28.04.2021
In India, more than a third of a million Covid-19 cases are being reported daily. It's an extreme example of the privileging of profits over [...]
Work and digitalisation
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16.04.2021
The Covid-19-induced exponential growth in digital labour platforms forces us to circle back to basic questions about the nature of work
Economy and ecology
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22.03.2021
The world's major private agencies are preventing low-income countries from investing in the recovery. We urgently need an independent public [...]
Foreign and security policy
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09.03.2021
As the G20 just agreed on a new allocation of special drawing rights, the IMF’s reserve asset, Europe should transfer its shares to poor countries
Foreign and security policy
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22.02.2021
While the EU's response to Covid-19 expresses solidarity within Europe, it's falling short of delivering international solidarity
Foreign and security policy
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29.01.2021
A people's vaccine, corporate tax, climate action. A few simple steps Biden could take for a more equitable global recovery
Democracy and society
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21.12.2020
How current efforts to improve food security in Africa are increasing small farmers’ dependence on global agribusinesses
Democracy and society
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14.12.2020
Contrary to what Narendra Modi's government thinks, the huge open-air farmers’ protests outside Delhi may not fizzle out
Future of social democracy
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23.11.2020
An every-country-for-itself approach is irrational during a pandemic. And yet, that is exactly what many countries have done
Future of social democracy
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07.10.2020
With extreme poverty rising and climate breakdown accelerating, we need to mobilise for a green, purple and red New Deal
Global
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24.08.2020
The US, Brazilian and Indian leaders' authoritarian personalities have led to the world’s highest numbers of Covid-19 infections
Global
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13.08.2020
First heralded, then forgotten. With the coronavirus still spreading rapidly, frontline workers are at greater risk than ever
Asia
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18.03.2020
The pandemic may have already set the stage for a debt meltdown, starting in Asia's emerging and developing economies
Economy and ecology
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20.11.2019
Less than 3 per cent of all our water is fresh. With global warming, this already leads to tensions in and between countries
Global
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25.10.2019
During the last four decades, mainstream economists and politicians have become intellectually isolated. This needs to end
Global
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23.09.2019
By addressing three problems in the international economic system, world leaders could help to put the SDGs back on track
Global
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20.08.2019
The International Monetary Fund’s bizarre belief in ‘expansionary austerity’ would be laughable if it were not so damaging
Global
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30.07.2019
A self-reinforcing pattern of high profits, low investment, and rising inequality demands a Global Green New Deal
Asia
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31.05.2019
Trump has railed against China’s massive trade surpluses. But actually China’s neighbors have far more reason to be worried
Global
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22.04.2019
The idea of a global corporate tax on multinational corporations' profits gains traction worldwide
Asia
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16.01.2019
How five million women formed a human chain in India's Kerala state to demonstrate for gender equality
Democracy and society
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28.12.2018
The Indian government is challenging the Reserve Bank of India's independence for all the wrong reasons
Global
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17.12.2018
It's neither trade nor technology that causes low wages. It's the political project of neoliberalism
Global
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17.09.2018
Current global rules have enabled a few large firms to capture an ever-larger share of wealth created from trade