A Comparative Look at the Waste Recycling Efforts of Indonesia and the United Kingdom
By Nadine Haase and Michael Palocz-Andresen
First, the definitions of plastic, plastic waste, and plastic pollution will be clarified, followed by the topic of importation...
Neocolonialism: An Analysis of International Factors on the Development of the Global South
By Kalim Siddiqui
Can former colonies truly get out from under the grip of developed countries? How has the economic, technological, and military advantage of...
The Future Role of the World Bank: Some Views on Strategy and Plumbing
By Danny Leipziger
It is more than 75 years since the World Bank was founded at Bretton Woods. Clearly, today's world is a different place,...
Why Capitalism Should Become More Balanced
By Mostafa Sayyadi and Michael J. Provitera
Capitalism, the foundation of many nations, may need to use a more systemic approach to see if capitalism...
Deepening Economic Crisis in Advanced Capitalism
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
In spite of the fundamental role that it has played in world history from the colonial period onwards, Kalim Siddiqui argues...
A Ground-Breaking Railway: Is the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway a Game-Changer for Indonesia?
By Xiangming Chen, Michael Hutahaean, and Irvin Nathaniel Tobing
With less than 25 countries owning high-speed rail services in the world, the development of the...
Towards Developing an Economic Model to Serve the Needs of the 21st Century –...
By Tim Bovy
Catastrophic events often create the context for new economic models. President Franklin D. Roosevelt developed the New Deal in the 1930s in...
UK-USA ‘Special-Relationship’ At Death’s Door
By Graham Vanbergen
Donald Trump has had one amazing week.
On Saturday, 13th July, Trump was the target of an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally. The photograph...
Towards Developing an Economic Model to Serve the Needs of the 21st Century –...
By Tim Bovy
In what might be considered the seminal definition of neoliberalism, Milton Friedman absolves businesses of needing a “social conscience". Nor do they...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
The World Bank and Neoliberalism: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Making of an Agenda
By Howard Stein
Since the latter part of the 1990s the World Bank has increasingly claimed its main focus is on poverty reduction and development. Among other things, the Bank introduced poverty focused loans, a...
