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The global commons: our shared resources
Article / 1st February 2006An overview of the issues surrounding the global commons, in relation to globalization, economic justice and the need to create a more sustainable world.
The Brandt Report: A Summary
Report / 31st January 2006Arguably the most comprehensive and solutions-oriented analysis of critical global economic issues to date was a report by the Independent Commission on International Development Issues, chaired by Willy Brandt (former Chancellor of West Germany) in 1980 – widely referred to as the ‘Brandt Report’.
The Brandt Report
Article / 2nd January 2006In the early 1980s Willy Brandt created an Independent Commission to study world poverty. Brandt was concerned that the prevailing economic system was the cause of immense poverty, suffering and degradation. …
Decommissioning The IMF, World Bank and WTO
Report / 20th December 2005This brief analyses the negative impacts of the IMF, World Bank and WTO on sustainable development and suggests an alternative mechanism for regulating the international economy that can allow these institutions to be progressively decommissioned.
Bruce Kent: Sharing the World's Resources
News / 21st July 2005A letter from one of the UK’s leading politcal activists Bruce Kent, endorsing the principle of sharing and the activities of STWR.