On Monday March 25, many African Government offices, businesses and banks grind to a halt in order to commemorate Africa Day. In schools up and…
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US citizens constitute 5 percent of the world’s population but consume 24 percent of global energy. On average, one person in the US consumes as much…
The annual spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank held in Washington over the weekend comprised the treasurers and central bankers, together…
World finance officials said Saturday they see a number of threats on the horizon for a global economy still clawing back from the deepest recession…
The World Bank regularly broke its own promises to protect Indigenous rights around the globe by funding projects that displaced or threatened the livelihood of…
For many years inequality in income and wealth received little attention in public debate and was only a minority interest in the economics profession. GDP…
The financial media as well as segments of the alternative media are pointing to a possible weakening of the US dollar as a global trading…
For millennia, the practice of saving and exchanging seeds has been fundamental to crop production in farming communities across the globe. Now, faced with a…
Two events occurred last week that mark a further phase in the waning of US global economic hegemony: China introduced its own Economic Development Bank,…
Bibi Netanyahu’s election, persistent violence through much of the Middle East and North Africa, and intensified efforts to forge a nuclear deal between the P5+1…
It appears the sea of de-dollarization has reached the shores of Europe. With Australia and UK having already moved in the direction of joining the China-led AIIB, The…
Oakland, CA — Every spring for the last fifteen years, the World Bank has organized the “Conference on Land and Poverty,” which brings together corporations, governments and…