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International Conference Debt, Common Goods and Domination- Resistance and Alternatives towards Well-Being (Buen vivir)

12 March 2015 - by CADTM AYNA

The problems of public debt, dependence and imperialist domination are within the main reasons of impoverishment, inequality and plundering in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as in other regions; especially, when taking into account that (...)
Universal Social Security – A commitment or a trickery?

9 March 2015 - by Sushovan Dhar

The ‘World Social Security Report’, released in 2010, by ILO reported India’s dismal track-record of social security protection for its citizens. It further stated that Indians, especially the poor and the marginalized, suffers from “very high (...)
IMF and World Bank at 70: many happy returns?

3 October 2014 - by Bretton Woods Project

In July, the IMF and World Bank turned 70. Unlike previous anniversaries of their establishment at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944, this milestone passed with relatively little attention or criticism. This reduced interest is presumed by (...)
Territorial Alliances and Emerging-Market Development Banking: A View from Subimperial South Africa

26 August 2014 - by Patrick Bond

Forthcoming in I.Wallerstein, C.Chase-Dunn and C.Suter (Ed), Overcoming Global Inequalities: Political Economy of the World-System Annuals, New York, Paradigm Publishers, 2014. Abstract A new “seat at the world table” is demanded by major (...)
BRICS Bank: Is it an alternative for development finance?

28 July 2014 - by Daniel Munevar

On July 15th, the governments of Brazil, Russia, China, India and South Africa announced the creation of a New Development Bank (NDB). According to the official press release, the main objective of the new multilateral institution is to (...)
A major political move: the BRICS launch the New Development Bank and a reserve arrangement

28 July 2014 - by María José Romero

The city of Fortaleza on the north-east coast of Brazil was the selected place for a major political move by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – the so called BRICS nations - in mid July. After the 2013 fifth BRICS’s summit held in (...)
Brickbats for the BRICS bank?

23 July 2014 - by John Weeks

For many years officials of governments in African, Asian and Latin American have urged the creation of a “development” bank that they would control. On Tuesday 15 hopes become reality in Forteleza, Brazil. The former has similarities to the (...)
The Newest Threat to People and the Planet

The Rise of “Sub-Imperialism”

26 November 2012 - by Patrick Bond

The heads of state of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa BRICS network are coming to Durban in four months, meeting on 26-27 March at the International Convention Centre (ICC), Africa’s largest venue. Given their recent performance, it is (...)