Showing posts with label political-economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political-economy. Show all posts
17 May 2012
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A Greek euro coin. Are the country's days as a member of the euro zone numbered? (dapd)07 May 2012
The Health of Nations: Towards a New Political Economy
Why, despite vast resources being expended on health and health care, is there still so much ill health and premature death? Why do massive inequalities in health - both within and between countries - remain? In this devastating critique, internationally renowned health economist Gavin Mooney places the responsibility for these problems firmly at the door of neoliberalism
Zed Books | 25 April 2012
The Health of Nations: Towards a New Political Economy by Gavin Mooney
Paperback
ISBN: 9781780320595
224 pages
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Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa
Chocolate - the very word conjures up a hint of the forbidden and a taste of the decadent. Yet the story behind the chocolate bar is rarely one of luxury...
Zed Books | 25 April 2012
Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa by Orla Ryan
20 January 2011- Paperback - ISBN: 9781848130050 - 192 pages
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Too many still struggling to meet food and nutrition goals
The developing world is lagging badly in the bid to reach global targets related to food and nutrition, and rates of child and maternal mortality are still unacceptably high, says a recently released report by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
by Carol Smith | OurWorld 2.0 | May 2, 2012
03 May 2012
Empire of Capital
Colonialism never ended, it continues by different means
By George Monbiot | The Guardian 1st May 2012 in monbiot.com | 30 April 2012
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We British have a peculiar ability to blot out our colonial history
By George Monbiot | The Guardian 24th April 2012 in monbiot.com | 23 April 2012
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I cannot vote in the French presidential election. While as an EU citizen with residence in France I have the right to vote for the mayor, I discovered that exercising that right requires extended negotiation with French municipal bureaucracy, an exercise on which no sane person would voluntarily embark. But the choice of president is a matter for the French alone
John Kay | johnkay.com | 02 May 2012
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Marx and Engels and “Small Is Beautiful”
Environmentalism and socialism have not always been on the best of terms. In the 60s and 70s, for example, there were fierce polemics between the two
by Samar Bagchi, John Bellamy Foster, and Fred Magdoff | Monthly Review | Feb 1 2012
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Debating the Future of Our World's Water
Achieving water democracy is surely a terrific opportunity to fix governance problems from the local to the global, but it's one enormous task
By Daniel Moss | AlterNet | April 6, 2012
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How to Start Your Own Power Company, Stop Coal and Nukes, and Transform Your City
2011 Goldman Prize winner Ursula Sladek discusses how she became an unwitting energy mogul -- and a global environmental hero
By Sven Eberlein | AlterNet |March 28, 2012
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07 April 2012
Fly and Be Damned
Fly and be Damned gets underneath the well-known facts about the unsustainable nature of the aviation industry and argues for fundamental change to our traveling habits
Zed Books | 13 March 2012
Fly and be Damned: What now for aviation and climate change by Peter McManners
23 February 2012 – Paperback - ISBN: 9781848139749 - 192 pages
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Getting Somalia Wrong?
Somalia is a failed state, representing a threat to itself, its neighbours and the wider world
Zed Books | 13 March 2012
Getting Somalia Wrong: Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State by Mary Harper
9 February 2012 – Paperback - ISBN: 9781842779330 - 232 pages
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To finance change, finance has to change
In an era of growing worldwide disdain at any mention of their ilk, did you ever wonder how bankers might feel? Would you believe that there are some amongst them who put central focus on ethical values? And that their banks have ended up delivering higher returns than some of the world’s biggest financial institutions?
by Carol Smith | OurWorld 2.0 | April 6, 2012
31 March 2012
Indonesia opposition parties block fuel price hike
Leading Indonesian political parties said on Friday they will oppose a government plan to raise fuel prices unless oil prices climb further, dealing a blow to the ruling party's efforts to control a swelling budget deficit in Southeast Asia's largest economy
Reuters | Mar 30, 2012
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On Friday, President Obama announced that he is nominating physician and Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to lead the World Bank. This likely appointment was greeted with approval by many long-time critics of corporate globalization. And it came after an unprecedented level of debate about who should be the institution’s next president
By Mark Engler | Foreign Policy in Focus | March 30, 2012
Read more... Sphere: Related ContentExpanding our moral universe
The United Nations University International Human Dimensions Programme recently ran a writing contest with a focus on the human dimensions of the Green Economy. Young scholars from all over the world were invited to submit their articles, with those from developing countries particularly encouraged to take part. Our World 2.0 is pleased to share the winning entry by Joy Merwin Monteiro who is currently completing his Ph.D. at the Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore
by Joy Merwin Monteiro | OurWorld 2.0 | March 30, 2012
28 March 2012
Global oil risks in the early 21st century
The Deepwater Horizon incident demonstrated that most of the oil left is deep offshore or in other locations difficult to reach. Moreover, to obtain the oil remaining in currently producing reservoirs requires additional equipment and technology that comes at a higher price in both capital and energy. In this regard, the physical limitations on producing ever-increasing quantities of oil are highlighted, as well as the possibility of the peak of production occurring this decade
by Dean Fantazzini, Mikael Höök, and André Angelantoni | Mar 27 2012 by The Oil Drum in Energy Bulletin | Mar 27 2012
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The Obama administration on Tuesday proposed the first-ever standards to cut carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants -- a move welcomed by environmentalists but criticized by some utilities as well as Republicans, who are expected to use it as election campaign fodder
By msnbc.com Staff | MSNBC | March 27, 2012
This coal-fired power plant is used by the city of Chicago, which last month decided to close it down by the end of 2014. A second coal plant will be closed by the end of this year. Chicago is the only large U.S. city with coal-fired power plants operating within its city limits. M. Spencer Green / AP
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26 March 2012
Popping the carbon bubble
How much ‘unburnable’ carbon is there on the world’s stock exchanges? Last year, the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) published an analysis asking this question. CTI compared the global ‘carbon budget’ needed to stay below a rise of two degrees Celsius in average temperatures (above pre-industrial levels) with the emissions potential of the proven coal, oil and gas reserves owned by listed companies
James Leaton | Climate Spectator | 23 Mar 2012
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This March, at the Environmental Film Festival in Washington, DC, I saw a documentary on the destruction of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan, once the world’s fourth-largest inland lake. Soviet planners and decision makers fifty years ago decided to divert the two main tributary rivers of the Aral to grow cotton. Starved of fresh water inflows, the Aral Sea has shrunk to half its original surface area and lost 75% of its volume
by Brent Blackwelder | The Daly News | March 26, 2012
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