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Bello: The Poverty of Philippine Foreign Policy
Znet Article, May, 22 2010
Walden Bello
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In the past the Philippines foreign policy has been overly submissive to US interests and often failed to promote the country's own interests. As the world increasingly becomes a multipolar environment the country will need to invest more in bring...
Bello: Is Corruption the Cause? The Poverty Trap
Znet Article, May, 20 2010
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
The “corruption-causes-poverty” narrative has become a standard tool in the hegemonic discourse kit for leaders in some developing countries - where in fact, Waldon Bello argues, it is neoliberal economic policies that are really to blame for pove...
Bello: China’s Neo-Colonialism
Znet Article, April, 21 2010
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
The new trade pact between China and ASEAN is touted as bringing benefits to both sides, but it is China that stands to gain most from the deal.
Bello: Why fighting corruption is not enough
Znet Article, April, 03 2010
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Corruption is blamed by most Filipinos for its economic quagmire, but it has been neoliberal policies and clean-cut technocrats who have been most responsible for causing poverty.
Bello: China Lassoes its Neighbors
Znet Article, March, 20 2010
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
The China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA), went into effect on 1st of January this year. For China, the benefits are clear, but Southeast Asia will be paying a big price for a bad deal.
Bello: How hyper-capitalism may hobble the Copenhagen summit
Znet Article, December, 10 2009
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Unless we re-think the export-oriented capitalism that's causing all of our climate problems, the Copenhagen conference will be nothing more than a Band-Aid.
Bello: The Meaning of Seattle: Truth Only Becomes True Through Action
Znet Article, November, 28 2009
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Before 1999, the momentum of globalization seemed to sweep everything in front of it, including the truth. But in Seattle, ordinary women and men made truth real with collective action.
Bello: Neoliberalism as Hegemonic Ideology in the Philippines
Znet Article, November, 05 2009
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Paper delivered at the plenary session of the 2009 National Conference of the Philippine Sociological Society held at the PSSC Building on 16 October 2009
Bello: The Virtues of Deglobalization
Znet Article, October, 23 2009
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
The current global downturn, the worst since the Great Depression 70 years ago, pounded the last nail into the coffin of globalization. Already beleaguered by evidence that showed global poverty and inequality increasing, even as most poor countri...
Bello: Keynes
Znet Article, July, 29 2009
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Although Keynes’s model of managed capitalism is being widely pursued as a response to the current crisis, it postpones rather than provides a solution to one of capitalism’s central contradictions, which is the underlying cause of the current...
Bello: Robert McNamara's Second Vietnam
Znet Article, July, 14 2009
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
The conventional view of Robert McNamara, who passed away a few days ago, is that after serving as the chief engineer of the disastrous U.S. war in Vietnam, he went on in 1968, to serve as president of the World Bank. In this way, he sought to sal...
Bello: Will China save the world from depression?
Znet Article, May, 30 2009
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Will China be the "growth pole" that will snatch the world from the jaws of depression? This question has become a favorite topic as the heroic American middle class consumer, weighed down by massive debt, ceases to be the key stimulus for global ...
Bello: U-20: Will the Global Economy Resurface?
Znet Article, March, 31 2009
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
The Group of 20 (G20) is making a big show of getting together to come to grips with the global economic crisis. But here's the problem with the upcoming summit in London on April 2: It's all show. What the show masks is a very deep worry and fear...
Bello: The Global Collapse: a Non-orthodox View
Znet Article, February, 21 2009
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Week after week, we see the global economy contracting at a pace worse than predicted by the gloomiest analysts. We are now, it is clear, in no ordinary recession but are headed for a global depression that could last for many years.
Bello: Asia: The Coming Fury
Znet Article, February, 10 2009
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
As goods pile up in wharves from Bangkok to Shanghai, and workers are laid off in record numbers, people in East Asia are beginning to realize they aren't only experiencing an economic downturn but living through the end of an era.
Bello: 'It Is Time to Aim Beyond Capitalism'
Znet Article, January, 31 2009
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
The World Social Forum meeting this week in this city in Brazil's Amazon jungle region has an urgent and crucial task: coming up with alternative solutions for the global crisis of capitalism now under way, and pushing for democratic control of th...
Bello: The Coming Capitalist Consensus
Znet Article, December, 25 2008
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Not surprisingly, the swift unraveling of the global economy combined with the ascent to the U.S. presidency of an African-American liberal has left millions anticipating that the world is on the threshold of a new era. Some of President-elect Bar...
Bello: Asia & the US in the 21st Century
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Despite the glitter that surrounded the Olympics in Beijing, the Democratic National Convention in Denver, and the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, the messages coming to Asia from these events were very different.
Bello: Primer on Wall Street Meltdown
Znet Article, October, 09 2008
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
The Wall Street meltdown is not only due to greed and to the lack of government regulation of a hyperactive sector. It stems from the crisis of overproduction that has plagued global capitalism since the mid-seventies, argues Walden Bello.
Bello: Toward a new American isolationism
Znet Article, September, 14 2008
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
The Bush administration's imperial and corporate misadventures over the last decade have proven that the world would be much better off without the US interference. China, as the new rising power, should be wary not to replicate the West's old pat...
Bello: Derail Doha, Save the Climate
Znet Article, July, 29 2008
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
There’s something surreal about the ongoing World Trade Organization talks in Geneva, which aim at coming up with a new agreement to bring down tariffs in order to expand world trade and resuscitate global growth. In the face of the looming specte...
Bello: Destroying African Agriculture
Znet Article, June, 07 2008
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Biofuel production is certainly one of the culprits in the current global food crisis. But while the diversion of corn from food to biofuel feedstock has been a factor in food prices shooting up, the more primordial problem has been the conversion...
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: 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.
