Impact of the crisis on civil society organizations
posted by Choike - Economy and Globalisation | Fri, 15/05/2009 - 00:47The food, environmental and economic crises have challenged civil society organizations and the communities they serve. A broad-based survey, financially supported by the UN, measured the impact of the crises on the operating capacity of CSOs around the world and their expectations as they look ahead.
The new developmental extractivism in South America
posted by Choike - Economy and Globalisation | Wed, 20/01/2010 - 23:21Where are the women in Haiti's reconstruction?
posted by Choike - Economy and Globalisation | Wed, 06/05/2009 - 21:47Women and gender issues were glaring in their absence from the March 31st Haiti International Donors' Conference held in New York when billions of dollars were pledged to finance Haiti's reconstruction. Haiti's National Plan of Action, the blueprint guiding reconstruction efforts and resource allocation, was based on a Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) that failed to address gender dimensions of Haitis proposed strategies for reconstructing macroeconomic, social, environmental policies, as ...
The cost of reserves: developing countries pay the price of global financial instability
posted by Choike - Economy and Globalisation | Wed, 06/05/2009 - 21:47A report by Eurodad highlights the lack of appropriate regulation and the global monetary (dis)order that have been at the heart of the current financial crisis.
Fifteen years is enough says new report on IFIs
posted by Choike - Economy and Globalisation | Wed, 06/05/2009 - 21:47The 2010 G8 Summit in Toronto in 2010 takes place during a time of change and opportunity. The financial crisis has spurred many civil society organizations (CSOs) to insist on far-reaching changes to the global financial system and its institutions (IFIs). A new publication by the Halifax Initiative together with other organizations: "Fifteen years is enough: What's changed in the international financial system and its institutions, what hasn't and what needs to" illustrates that 15 years of re...
New gender toolkit for international finance-watchers
posted by Choike - Economy and Globalisation | Wed, 06/05/2009 - 21:47IFI policy-based loans disproportionately harm poor women, who often become shock absorbers for neoliberal economic reforms like trade liberalization, privatization of public enterprises, government retrenchment, social spending cutbacks, user fees for essential services and financial sector reforms. A new guide developed by Gender Acion gives tips for submitting a gender discrimination compalint to an IFI accountability mechanism.
Haiti: Grants to repay an odious debt?
posted by Choike - Economy and Globalisation | Wed, 06/05/2009 - 21:47There is no doubt that the recent natural disaster has lead to considerable and unforeseeable material and human damage. Emergency aid is therefore needed and everyone can agree on this point. However, this earthquake was not the root cause of poverty and squalor. This country needs to be re-built because it has been stripped of its means to rebuild itself. Haiti is neither a free nor a sovereign country.
Brave new world emerges from IMF and World Bank Istanbul meetings
posted by Choike - Economy and Globalisation | Fri, 15/05/2009 - 00:47The IMF /World Bank 2009 Annual meetings were, as every three years, held outside of Washington, this time in the city of Istanbul. The meetings came on the heels of the recent summit of the Group of 20 in Pittsburgh, giving follow up to several of its decisions. Some of the outcomes were perplexing, there is little progress and, some might say, even some signs of retrogression.
South American nations agree on technical rules for Bank of the South
posted by Choike - Economy and Globalisation | Wed, 15/07/2009 - 22:21A new prescription
posted by Choike - Economy and Globalisation | Mon, 16/03/2009 - 12:59A Commission of Experts set up by the U.N. makes recommendations that promise to address adequately the biggest crisis of capitalism since the 1930s. The very fact that this plan was prepared on behalf of the United Nations with 192 member-states and would be debated at such an inclusive forum makes it noteworthy. This in itself is an advance on the efforts still under way to negotiate and formulate recovery plans in self-constituted, unrepresentative, and, therefore, partly illegitimate groupin...