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The Contest to Shape “Country Platforms”
Last month, young people in Bangladesh revolted against their government over a jobs quota bill that would have reserved 30 percent of public-sector jobs for family members of veterans of the 1971 war...
View ArticlePeripheral Conditionalities
The need to reorganize global governance so as to make space for a growing China has long been apparent. With the financial crisis of 2008, another demand emerged: the reshaping of capitalism itself....
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Marshall Plans
At September’s UN General Assembly in New York, Brazil’s President Lula described the international financial system as a “Marshall Plan in reverse” in which the poorest countries finance the richest....
View Article“Greenwashing” Structural Adjustment
In a global financial system underpinned by the US dollar, the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes can push much of the global South to the brink of a full-blown debt crisis. The exposure of...
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America First?
The reelection of Donald Trump to the presidency has sent shockwaves around the world. And just hours after results came in, the ruling three-party German coalition government, which had been...
View ArticleSelling Power
President Joe Biden began his term with Rooseveltian ambitions. Perhaps the most exemplary were those to remake the electric power industry. To this end, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the United...
View ArticleState and Development
The world economy has seen a resurgence of industrial policy in recent decades. National development programs are at the center of a variety of polarizing geopolitical axes: carbon emissions, world...
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Polycrisis 2025
The United States will be a source of chaos and volatility for the next several years. The first month of 2025 has set the scene. Events so far have included imperial gangsterism against both a poor...
View ArticleDisplacement and Development
Brazil’s low-carbon energy sector is often spotlighted in international forums debating solutions to the global climate emergency. While agribusiness and the extractive industry are the main...
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Molecules of Freedom
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, European, and especially German, industry was left in the lurch. Much of the 150 billion cubic meters of natural gas piped from Russia each year had to be...
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