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UNCTAD as the Battleground for Role of the State, Trade Policy
We’ve featured past Real News Network segments on the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. UNCTAD has increasingly become a forum for struggles between advanced economies and developing economies over what the rules of the road should be in trade.
How Neoliberalism Changed Economic Development: The Examples of India and China « naked capitalism
This is an intriguing little video summarizing the hypothesis of a new study by Vamsi Vakulabharanam.A global fair trade: Unctad's lesson | openDemocracy
The global power-balance is being changed by the rise of the non-western "Brics" states. This makes the pioneering work of a body committed to linking trade and development in the interest of the world's poor more relevant than ever. A paradox of the current political and media world is that the intergovernmental body with the best record in supporting the interests of the poorest gets the least attention and support.
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This lecture argues that occasions when development economists were more certain about 'the solution to global poverty' have often led to harmful consequences for the world's poor in the long-run.
We Don't Know How to Solve Global Poverty and That's a Good Thing - 2010 - Events - Public events - Home
Steven Cramer interviews Ellen Bryant Voigt, a poet whose new collection of essays offers a defense of the lyric mode and a portrait of an uncommon reader's mind. In his new book, The Big Test, Nicholas Lemann argues that the structure of educational opportunity in America is inherently flawed and must be rebuilt. Setting the Record Straight (September 22, 1999)
Interview - Amartya Sen
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"For the three days that they took her away, I couldn't touch food," Laxmi's mother told me through a translator, pointing at her daughter. "We are just glad to have her back."
Why the dream of microfinance is turning sour - Asia, World - The Independent
The debate over the Nike “Girl Effect” video has unintentionally revealed a deep divide in approaches to development, with the two sides close to mutual incomprehension.
Dialogues on Women’s Empowerment
Foreign Aid for Scoundrels by William Easterly | The New York Review of Books
I was in a New York bar recently with a group of African intellectuals.