Finance has become a critical player in our societies. Financial flows, the volume of which is mind-boggling, give extreme power to operators whose sole objective is to make quick profits at a precise point in time when the long term should be the central focus of our concerns.
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26 February 2023 – The Brazilian “Cerrado”: a textbook case of “modern” agricultural development based on resources grabbing, collusion and violence. Brazil’s agricultural “miracle” and its dark side… [read]
November 2021 – Opinion: Will Glasgow Fix Broken Climate Finance Promises? by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury. [read]
11 April 2019 – How far will financial speculation go? After prices, pandemics – What next…? Perverse financial instrument, the Ebola “pandemic bonds” of the World Bank have paid, in two years, more than $110 million to speculators, while only $20 million were used to fight against the on-going pandemic in DRC. [read]
Decembrer 2018 – Opinion: Big Business Capturing UN SDG Agenda? by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury. [read]
November 2018 – Privatisation of development assistance: integrating further agriculture into the world market – The growing role left by governments to the privage sector transforms modalities of agricultural development in poor countries to the detriment of the mass of farmers who are, to a large extent, excluded. [read]