Sharing to secure human rights
Article / 4th November 2008The following talk was given at a seminar hosted by World Goodwill on the theme “Human Rights, Spiritual Responsibilities – A Crisis for Democracy?”, held in London on the 1st November 2008.
Food and markets: a crisis of faith
Article / 30th September 2008Unlike the crisis of 1970s stagflation that signalled the end for the Keynesian social-democratic model, the food crisis of 2008 could be marked down in history for setting in motion an opposite trend, writes Adam Parsons.
The global fight for food: a battle of narratives
Article / 16th September 2008The inability of world leaders to face up to the root causes or policy contradictions of a food crisis is nothing new, but the resultant crisis of faith in neoliberal economic orthodoxy is a sign that the world direction is changing course, writes Adam Parsons.
Do the poor count?
Article / 15th September 2008The World Bank’s latest poverty figures underline the fact that globalisation has been largely ineffective at either reducing the burgeoning ranks of the world’s poor, or including this vast swathe of the global population into the mainstream economy.
World bank poverty figures: what do they mean?
Article / 15th September 2008The World Bank’s revised international poverty line of $1.25, which on many counts reveals a negligible difference in reducing poverty since 1981, raises legitimate questions about the assumed success of globalisation.