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Bello: How to manufacture a global food crisis: lessons from the World Bank, IMF, and WTO
Znet Article, May, 17 2008
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
When tens of thousands of people staged demonstrations in Mexico last year to protest a 60 percent increase in the price of tortillas, many analysts pointed to biofuel as the culprit. Because of US government subsidies, American farmers were devot...
Bello: Power, Passion, and Neoliberalism
Znet Article, April, 24 2008
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is very impressive indeed. This is, however, not immediately evident, a sense that is confirmed by Joseph Stiglitz' review of the book. Even before I read it, I was certain that the...
Bello: Will Capitalism Survive Climate Change?
Znet Article, April, 07 2008
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
There is now a solid consensus in the scientific community that if the change in global mean temperature in the 21st century exceeds 2.4 degrees Celsius, changes in the planet's climate will be large-scale, irreversible and disastrous.
Bello: Capitalism in an Apocalyptic Mood
Znet Article, February, 22 2008
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Skyrocketing oil prices, a falling dollar, and collapsing financial markets are the key ingredients in an economic brew that could end up in more than just an ordinary recession.
Bello: World Social Forum Interview
Znet Article, February, 03 2008
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
I think the WSF Day of Action is a good idea. It is a first step in moving the WSF from being simply a forum for discussion to becoming an arena for action. It will push people into actively taking on issues and mobilizing for them. Being local ac...
Bello: Elites vs. Greens in the Global South
Znet Article, January, 22 2008
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Last month's conference on climate change in Bali, Indonesia, brought the North-South fault line in climate politics into sharp relief. While U.S. intransigence on the question of mandatory cuts in greenhouse gas emissions took center stage, not f...
Bello: Climate Change and Globalisation
Video, January, 18 2008
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
An interview at the United Nations climate change conference in Bali, December 2007.
Bello: Bali: A Missed Opportunity
Znet Article, January, 13 2008
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
The UN climate conference in Bali was a missed opportunity to act on the greatest challenge in our generation, with a 'road map' agreed. The sketchy Bali Roadmap was the result of getting the US on board at any cost.
Bello: The day after...
Znet Article, December, 24 2007
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
The single-minded focus on getting Washington on board at the UN climate conference in Bali resulted in the lack of firm targets for reducing emissions.
Bello: The Environmental Movement in the Global South:
Znet Article, October, 13 2007
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
The Environmental Movement in the Global South:
Bello: Dark Victory: The United States, Structural Adjustment, and Global Poverty (Transnational Institute)
Book, October, 12 2007
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Bello: Dark Victory: The United States, Structural Adjustment, and Global Poverty (Transnational Institute)
Book, October, 12 2007
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Hayes: American Lake: Nuclear Peril in the Pacific (Penguin Asia-Pacific Series)
Book, October, 12 2007
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Hayes: American Lake: Nuclear Peril in the Pacific (Penguin Asia-Pacific Series)
Book, October, 12 2007
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Bello: A Siamese Tragedy: Development and Degradation in Modern Thailand
Book, October, 12 2007
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Bello: A Siamese Tragedy: Development and Degradation in Modern Thailand
Book, October, 12 2007
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Bello: A Siamese Tragedy: Development and Degradation in Modern Thailand
Book, October, 12 2007
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Bello: A Siamese Tragedy: Development and Degradation in Modern Thailand
Book, October, 12 2007
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Bello: A Siamese Tragedy: Development and Degradation in Modern Thailand
Book, October, 12 2007
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Bello: The post-Washington dissensus
Znet Article, September, 28 2007
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
"[World] Bank researchers have...done extremely visible work on globalization, on aid effectiveness, and on growth and poverty. In many ways, they have been the leaders in these issues. But the panel had substantial criticisms of the way that the ...
