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World Bank called to account – The SAPRI report, 20 years on
Rick Rowden talks to Doug Hellinger, the leader of a groundbreaking probe into World Bank programmes in the developing world, about the initiative’s significance and its lessons for today’s advocacy

All round sound investments
Investment droughts in energy generate conflict and misery in the Global South and fuel a flood of migration while impairing bids for sustainability. Prashant Vaze calls on advanced economies to

Power planting
Rohini Kamal outlines the promises and problems for Bangladesh in building solar arrays on its farmland. More than 100 countries met in Dubai during November last year where they pledged

Trading security
Uneven production, thin trading, climate change and increasing demand will keep food security out of balance. Jayan Jose Thomas and B. Satheesha explain in the wake of India’s rice export

A local lifeline
As developing nations sink in overseas debt, Bruno Bonizzi describes why local currency debt may be part of the solution. After a decade of sustained growth, Ghana defaulted on its

When economists shut off your water
This account is based on the findings of ethnographic research conducted in Kayole Soweto, Nairobi, in 2022 by Adrian Wilson, Irene Nduta and Somo Abdi and written by Adrian and Irene with

Go West
The developed world’s delivery on commitments to help pull the poorest countries out of their tailspin into destitution is arguably as crucial as it is unlikely. Niko Humalisto suggests reflection.

Radical moves
Could a sway to the left in South America be the start of a new Latin step? Alexander Kozul-Wright looks at the partners. Political change in Latin America’s recent history

David never beats Goliath
The economic impact of war in Ukraine will tighten the screw on people who have endured assault for decades under a lauded financial regime, says Grimot Nane. Russia’s invasion of

Where is credit due?
Nick Bernards looks at financial solutions to poverty and their remarkable durability. In 2019, World Bank vice president for equitable growth, finance and institutions, Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, sang the virtues of

Three steps out of a fix
Rick Rowden offers a trio of measures to overhaul a creaking global financial system Thanks to the historically ambitious scale of their fiscal and monetary policies, most of the rich

Sovereign states on a leash
Foreign investment: Rick Rowden recounts the tale of who’s wagging the dog. When Mexico adopted a tax on high-fructose corn syrup as part of an effort to address the

Normally corrupt
Riccardo D’Emidio explores why social norms and informality matter in considerations of corruption. Growing up in a British-Italian household I was regularly surprised by how differently people behaved in the

Peddle Preneur
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Bottle Economy
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Peddle Preneur
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Bottle Economy
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Interview: John Perkins – Mystically Speaking – Transcript
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The long and winding road
Anja Mihr is a political scientist based in Germany and Kyrgyzstan, which happens to be next door to China, where she is no longer welcome—it is worth a look at

Sweatshop working – not all it seems
Mirjam Muller is a feminist philosopher based in Berlin with a very practical bent: the ethics of sweatshops where most of the clothes we wear are made by women in

A solid case
In her recently published book, Tehila Sasson, a modern historian, investigates the origins and impacts of the ideas and implementation of the ‘solidarity economy’. In it, she provides a fascinating
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Peddle Preneur
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Bottle Economy
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Interview: John Perkins – Mystically Speaking – Transcript
The Mint: Good morning John. It’s great you’ve made some time to talk to us. I’m very grateful. Thanks. John Perkins: Well, it’s great to be with you, Henry. Thanks